Using our company’s CO2 electrolysers as a model, we describe the challenges involved in incorporating nanomaterial catalysts into industrial-scale electrolysers and suggest ways to more efficiently realize the performance improvements of academic-scale novel nanomaterials at industrial scales.
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Buckley, A.K., Ma, S., Huo, Z. et al. Nanomaterials for carbon dioxide conversion at industrial scale. Nat. Nanotechnol. 17, 811–813 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01147-8
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