Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Electrocatalytic synthesis of adipic acid coupled with H2 production enhanced by a ligand modification strategy

  • Zhenhua Li,
  • Xiaofan Li,
  • Hua Zhou,
  • Yan Xu,
  • Si-Min Xu,
  • Yue Ren,
  • Yifan Yan,
  • Jiangrong Yang,
  • Kaiyue Ji,
  • Li Li,
  • Ming Xu,
  • Mingfei Shao,
  • Xianggui Kong,
  • Xiaoming Sun,
  • Haohong Duan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32769-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Adipic acid is an important building block of polymers, although its production relies on harmful reagents. Here, authors examined surfactant-modified nickel hydroxide for adipic acid electrosynthesis coupled with hydrogen gas evolution.