Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Raw biomass electroreforming coupled to green hydrogen generation

  • Hu Zhao,
  • Dan Lu,
  • Jiarui Wang,
  • Wenguang Tu,
  • Dan Wu,
  • See Wee Koh,
  • Pingqi Gao,
  • Zhichuan J. Xu,
  • Sili Deng,
  • Yan Zhou,
  • Bo You,
  • Hong Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22250-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The scale-up of the coupling of water electroreduction (HER) with organic electrooxidation remains challenging. Here the authors address this challenge by coupling HER with electrooxidation of raw biomass chitin, cogenerating acetate and green hydrogen safely at high current density.