"Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Formate" by Jinshuo Zou
Electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2RR) is an environmentally friendly approach to transform greenhouse CO2 to value-added chemical feedstocks and fuels. One of the promising CO2RR products is formate which is widely applied in chemical, food and energy related industrials. The ideal CO2RR to formate electrolysers should possess features such as high formate conversion Faradaic efficiencies (FEformate) at low overpotentials, high current densities, and outstanding stability to meet industrial requirements. In this thesis, highly selective formate producing catalysts were designed and prepared. T...