A self-healing electrocatalytic system via electrohydrodynamics induced evolution in liquid metal

Yifeng Hou; Fengyan Wang; Chichu Qin; Shining Wu; Mengyang Cao; Pengkun Yang; Lu Huang; Yingpeng Wu

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-35416-w

Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

A self-healing electrocatalytic system via electrohydrodynamics induced evolution in liquid metal

Yifeng Hou,
Fengyan Wang,
Chichu Qin,
Shining Wu,
Mengyang Cao,
Pengkun Yang,
Lu Huang,
Yingpeng Wu

Affiliations

Yifeng Hou: State Key Laboratory of Chem/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Advanced Catalytic Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University
Fengyan Wang: State Key Laboratory of Chem/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Advanced Catalytic Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University
Chichu Qin: State Key Laboratory of Chem/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Advanced Catalytic Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University
Shining Wu: State Key Laboratory of Chem/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Advanced Catalytic Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University
Mengyang Cao: State Key Laboratory of Chem/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Advanced Catalytic Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University
Pengkun Yang: State Key Laboratory of Chem/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Advanced Catalytic Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University
Lu Huang: State Key Laboratory of Chem/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Advanced Catalytic Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University
Yingpeng Wu: State Key Laboratory of Chem/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Advanced Catalytic Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35416-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Self-healing electrodes may offer opportunities to prevent catalyst deterioration during electrocatalytic reactions. Here the authors demonstrate a self-healing system by exploiting electrohydrodynamics induced evolution of Bi in liquid metal and apply this to CO2 electroreduction to formate.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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