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CO2 ELECTROLYSIS

Creating the right environment

Nature Energy volume 6, pages 1005–1006 (2021)Cite this article

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Highly selective CO2 reduction electrodes are essential for the viability of CO2 electrolysis as a carbon utilization technology. New research demonstrates a strategy to control the selectivity of CO2 conversion by coating the electrocatalyst with thin bilayers of ionomers to tune the electrode microenvironment.

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Fig. 1: CO2 electroreduction cathode with a bilayer coating.

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Hansen, K.U., Jiao, F. Creating the right environment. Nat Energy 6, 1005–1006 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-021-00930-6

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