{"id":74039,"date":"2020-04-22T06:59:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T04:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rss.nova-institut.net\/public.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biofuelsdigest.com%2Fbdigest%2F2020%2F04%2F15%2Fchinese-researchers-develop-new-process-for-producing-electrochemicals-from-co2%2F"},"modified":"2021-09-09T21:19:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:19:49","slug":"scientists-propose-new-strategy-for-co2-electrochemical-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/scientists-propose-new-strategy-for-co2-electrochemical-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Propose New Strategy for CO<sub>2<\/sub> Electrochemical Reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission has become a global problem. Efficient conversion of CO2 into value-added liquid fuels is one\u00a0method to fix CO2, and it can alleviate the growing shortage of non-renewable fossil fuels at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The electrochemical reduction of CO2 to value-added products has obtained attention worldwide in recent years owing to its mild reaction conditions and high energy efficiency. However, it remains a challenge to achieve a large current density with a high Faraday efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a research team led by Prof. LIU Licheng from the\u00a0Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the\u00a0Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) proposed\u00a0a new strategy for improving the catalytic activity of transition metal catalysts for CO2 electrocatalytic reduction.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that directly coating the amino-functionalized carbon layer can effectively regulate the electronic structure of the non-precious metal catalyst SnS.<\/p>\n<p>This approach would accelerate the electron conduction efficiency and enhance the adsorption energies of OCHO* and CO2*, increasing\u00a0the reaction current density and formate production.<\/p>\n<p>The related\u00a0findings were published in Advanced Energy Materials. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Dalian National Laboratory For Clean Energy Cooperation Fund. c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission has become a global problem. Efficient conversion of CO2 into value-added liquid fuels is one\u00a0method to fix CO2, and it can alleviate the growing shortage of non-renewable fossil fuels at the same time. The electrochemical reduction of CO2 to value-added products has obtained attention worldwide in recent years owing to its [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572,5571],"tags":[14936,12330,5817],"supplier":[7471],"class_list":["post-74039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","category-co2-based","tag-carbondioxide","tag-ccu","tag-research","supplier-chinese-academy-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74039"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=74039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}