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Scalable CO2-to-oxygenate production

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Most electrochemical CO2 reduction research has been confined to fundamental studies that attempt to understand how to overcome low selectivity and energy efficiency for valuable oxygenated products. Now, a modular, scalable system generates multi-carbon oxygenates with a potential solar-to-alcohol efficiency of more than 8%.

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Fig. 1: Modular and scalable CO2 reduction process.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Erin B. Creel

  2. Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Erin B. Creel

  3. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bryan D. McCloskey

  4. Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bryan D. McCloskey

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Creel, E.B., McCloskey, B.D. Scalable CO2-to-oxygenate production. Nat Catal 1, 6–7 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-017-0011-3

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