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Zhengshan Yang, Bowen Deng, Kaifa Du, Huayi Yin, Dihua Wang. A general descriptor for guiding the electrolysis of CO2 in molten carbonate. Green Energy&Environment, 2024, 9(4): 748-757. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2022.09.011
Citation: Zhengshan Yang, Bowen Deng, Kaifa Du, Huayi Yin, Dihua Wang. A general descriptor for guiding the electrolysis of CO2 in molten carbonate. Green Energy&Environment, 2024, 9(4): 748-757. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2022.09.011
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A general descriptor for guiding the electrolysis of CO2 in molten carbonate

doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2022.09.011

  • School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Hubei International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Sustainable Resource and Energy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

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This work was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52031008, 21673162).

  • Received date 25 July 2022, Accepted date 23 September 2022, RevRecd date 16 September 2022, Publish date 30 September 2022,
    Abstract
  • Molten carbonate is an excellent electrolyte for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to carbonaceous materials. However, the electrolyte–electrode-reaction relationship has not been well understood. Herein, we propose a general descriptor, the CO2 activity, to reveal the electrolyte–electrode-reaction relationship by thermodynamic calculations and experimental studies. Experimental studies agree well with theoretical predictions that both cations (Li+, Ca2+, Sr2+ and Ba2+) and anions (BO2-, Ti5O148-, SiO32-) can modulate the CO2 activity to control both cathode and anode reactions in a typical molten carbonate electrolyzer in terms of tuning reaction products and overpotentials. In this regard, the reduction of CO32- can be interpreted as the direct reduction of CO2 generated from the dissociated CO32-, and the CO2 activity can be used as a general descriptor to predict the electrode reaction in molten carbonate. Overall, the CO2 activity descriptor unlocks the electrolyte–electrode-reaction relationship, thereby providing fundamental insights into guiding molten carbonate CO2 electrolysis.

     

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