Enhanced carbon dioxide electrolysis at redox manipulated interfaces

Wenyuan Wang; Lizhen Gan; John P. Lemmon; Fanglin Chen; John T. S. Irvine; Kui Xie

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09568-1

Enhanced carbon dioxide electrolysis at redox manipulated interfaces

Wenyuan Wang, Lizhen Gan, John P. Lemmon, Fanglin Chen, John T. S. Irvine, Kui Xie

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Abstract

Utilization of carbon dioxide from industrial waste streams offers significant reductions in global carbon dioxide emissions. Solid oxide electrolysis is a highly efficient, high temperature approach that reduces polarization losses and best utilizes process heat; however, the technology is relatively unrefined for currently carbon dioxide electrolysis. In most electrochemical systems, the interface between active components are usually of great importance in determining the performance and lifetime of any energy materials application. Here we report a generic approach of interface engineering to achieve active interfaces at nanoscale by a synergistic control of materials functions and interface architectures. We show that the redox-manipulated interfaces facilitate the atomic oxygen transfer from adsorbed carbon dioxide molecules to the cathode lattice that determines carbon dioxide electrolysis at elevated temperatures. The composite cathodes with in situ grown interfaces demonstrate significantly enhanced carbon dioxide electrolysis and improved durability.

Original language	English
Article number	1550
Number of pages	10
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09568-1
Publication status	Published - 4 Apr 2019

Access to Document

10.1038/s41467-019-09568-1Licence: CC BY

Wang_2019_NC_EnhancedCarbondioxide_CC
Copyright © 2019 The Author(s). Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Final published version, 6.27 MBLicence: CC BY

John Thomas Sirr Irvine
- jtsist-andrews.acuk
Person: Academic

Cite this

@article{6483dd2bf8f64fb3a6b752f7a8c6e0ef,

title = "Enhanced carbon dioxide electrolysis at redox manipulated interfaces",

abstract = "Utilization of carbon dioxide from industrial waste streams offers significant reductions in global carbon dioxide emissions. Solid oxide electrolysis is a highly efficient, high temperature approach that reduces polarization losses and best utilizes process heat; however, the technology is relatively unrefined for currently carbon dioxide electrolysis. In most electrochemical systems, the interface between active components are usually of great importance in determining the performance and lifetime of any energy materials application. Here we report a generic approach of interface engineering to achieve active interfaces at nanoscale by a synergistic control of materials functions and interface architectures. We show that the redox-manipulated interfaces facilitate the atomic oxygen transfer from adsorbed carbon dioxide molecules to the cathode lattice that determines carbon dioxide electrolysis at elevated temperatures. The composite cathodes with in situ grown interfaces demonstrate significantly enhanced carbon dioxide electrolysis and improved durability.",

author = "Wenyuan Wang and Lizhen Gan and Lemmon, {John P.} and Fanglin Chen and Irvine, {John T. S.} and Kui Xie",

note = "K.X. would like to acknowledge the funding support form Natural Science Foundation of China (91845202, 21750110433), Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy (DNL180404), and Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB2000000). J.T.S.I. would like to acknowledge support from the EPSRC for the Emergent Nanomaterials Critical Mass project (EP/R023603/1).",

year = "2019",

month = apr,

day = "4",

doi = "10.1038/s41467-019-09568-1",

language = "English",

volume = "10",

journal = "Nature Communications",

issn = "2041-1723",

publisher = "Nature publishing group",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Enhanced carbon dioxide electrolysis at redox manipulated interfaces

AU - Wang, Wenyuan

AU - Gan, Lizhen

AU - Lemmon, John P.

AU - Chen, Fanglin

AU - Irvine, John T. S.

AU - Xie, Kui

N1 - K.X. would like to acknowledge the funding support form Natural Science Foundation of China (91845202, 21750110433), Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy (DNL180404), and Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB2000000). J.T.S.I. would like to acknowledge support from the EPSRC for the Emergent Nanomaterials Critical Mass project (EP/R023603/1).

PY - 2019/4/4

Y1 - 2019/4/4

N2 - Utilization of carbon dioxide from industrial waste streams offers significant reductions in global carbon dioxide emissions. Solid oxide electrolysis is a highly efficient, high temperature approach that reduces polarization losses and best utilizes process heat; however, the technology is relatively unrefined for currently carbon dioxide electrolysis. In most electrochemical systems, the interface between active components are usually of great importance in determining the performance and lifetime of any energy materials application. Here we report a generic approach of interface engineering to achieve active interfaces at nanoscale by a synergistic control of materials functions and interface architectures. We show that the redox-manipulated interfaces facilitate the atomic oxygen transfer from adsorbed carbon dioxide molecules to the cathode lattice that determines carbon dioxide electrolysis at elevated temperatures. The composite cathodes with in situ grown interfaces demonstrate significantly enhanced carbon dioxide electrolysis and improved durability.

AB - Utilization of carbon dioxide from industrial waste streams offers significant reductions in global carbon dioxide emissions. Solid oxide electrolysis is a highly efficient, high temperature approach that reduces polarization losses and best utilizes process heat; however, the technology is relatively unrefined for currently carbon dioxide electrolysis. In most electrochemical systems, the interface between active components are usually of great importance in determining the performance and lifetime of any energy materials application. Here we report a generic approach of interface engineering to achieve active interfaces at nanoscale by a synergistic control of materials functions and interface architectures. We show that the redox-manipulated interfaces facilitate the atomic oxygen transfer from adsorbed carbon dioxide molecules to the cathode lattice that determines carbon dioxide electrolysis at elevated temperatures. The composite cathodes with in situ grown interfaces demonstrate significantly enhanced carbon dioxide electrolysis and improved durability.

U2 - 10.1038/s41467-019-09568-1

DO - 10.1038/s41467-019-09568-1

M3 - Article

SN - 2041-1723

VL - 10

JO - Nature Communications

JF - Nature Communications

M1 - 1550

ER -

Enhanced carbon dioxide electrolysis at redox manipulated interfaces

Abstract

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Profiles

John Thomas Sirr Irvine

Cite this