Proceedings of Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MAT-SUS) (NFM22)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.nfm.2022.033
Publication date: 11th July 2022
The conversion of biomass platforms to value-added chemicals represents an exciting opportunity to extract value from the anodic half reaction in water/CO2 electrolysis while also holding the potential to lower the cell voltage required to carry out the full reaction. Despite this promise, catalysts still do not exist that can operate at sufficiently low overpotentials with high rates and selectivity and a comprehensive understanding of many of these reactions is still lacking. Against this backdrop, my lab’s work in recent years has focused on the use of operando spectroscopy (carried out as the reaction progresses) to probe reactions such as the oxidation of hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA). Further, we translate the insights gained into the rational design of next-generation catalysts with enhanced performance, thus creating an iterative feedback cycle. This talk will focus on research that spans from our first efforts on simple gold nanoparticles all the way to recent complex materials such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that operate in unique ways to electrochemically convert biomass platforms to value-added products.
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