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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of the American Chemical Society Année : 2024

Smart electrode surfaces by electrolyte immobilization for electrocatalytic CO 2 conversion

Smart Electrode Surfaces by Electrolyte Immobilization for Electrocatalytic CO2 Conversion.

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The activity and selectivity of molecular catalysts for the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) are influenced by the induced electric field at the electrode/electrolyte interface. We present here a novel electrolyte immobilization method to control the electric field at this interface by positively charging the electrode surface with an imidazolium cation organic layer, which significantly favors CO2 conversion to formate, suppresses hydrogen evolution reaction, and diminishes the operating cell voltage. Those results are well supported by our previous DFT calculations studying the mechanistic role of imidazolium cations in solution for CO2 reduction to formate catalyzed by a model molecular catalyst. This smart electrode surface concept based on covalent grafting of imidazolium on a carbon electrode is successfully scaled up for operating at industrially relevant conditions (100 mA cm–2) on an imidazolium-modified carbon-based gas diffusion electrode using a flow cell configuration, where the CO2 conversion to formate process takes place in acidic aqueous solution to avoid carbonate formation and is catalyzed by a model molecular Rh complex in solution. The formate production rate reaches a maximum of 4.6 gHCOO– m–2 min–1 after accumulating a total of 9000 C of charge circulated on the same electrode. Constant formate production and no significant microscopic changes on the imidazolium-modified cathode in consecutive long-term CO2 electrolysis confirmed the high stability of the imidazolium organic layer under operating conditions for CO2RR.
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hal-04408861 , version 1 (22-01-2024)

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Elli Vichou, Yanis Adjez, Yun Li, Maria Gómez-Mingot, Marc Fontecave, et al.. Smart electrode surfaces by electrolyte immobilization for electrocatalytic CO 2 conversion. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146 (4), pp.2824-2834. ⟨10.1021/jacs.3c13315⟩. ⟨hal-04408861⟩
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