Advance Electrochemical CO_2 Utilization Towards Higher Industrial Readiness: Across Multiple Scales from Catalyst Design, Electrode Decoration, to Reactor Engineering

摘要

The challenges in electro-catalytic mitigation of CO_2 press innovations across multiple scales going from catalyst structure at microscale to the complex multiphase thermofluids network at system scale. In this presentation, I will demonstrate a molecular electrocatalyst active for CO_2 to methanol conversion, a pioneering catalyst restructuring technique to realize 12-day CO_2-formate inter-conversion, a polymer-molecular catalyst hybrid gas diffusion electrode to reduce CO_2 in presence of O_2 just like the industrial flue gases, an alkaline based micro-flow reactor to boost the CO_2 electro-reduction performance, and an unprecedented in-situ platform to reveal the near-electrode local environment in a flow reactor.