Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Dual hydrogen production from electrocatalytic water reduction coupled with formaldehyde oxidation via a copper-silver electrocatalyst

  • Guodong Li,
  • Guanqun Han,
  • Lu Wang,
  • Xiaoyu Cui,
  • Nicole K. Moehring,
  • Piran R. Kidambi,
  • De-en Jiang,
  • Yujie Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36142-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Water electrolysis typically requires a large voltage input and produces H2 only at the cathode. Here the authors present a strategy of coupling formaldehyde oxidation with water reduction and report H2 production at both anode and cathode with small voltage inputs.