Unraveling the mechanism for paired electrocatalysis of organics with water as a feedstock

Ganceng Yang; Yanqing Jiao; Haijing Yan; Ying Xie; Chungui Tian; Aiping Wu; Yu Wang; Honggang Fu

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-30495-1

Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Unraveling the mechanism for paired electrocatalysis of organics with water as a feedstock

Ganceng Yang,
Yanqing Jiao,
Haijing Yan,
Ying Xie,
Chungui Tian,
Aiping Wu,
Yu Wang,
Honggang Fu

Affiliations

Ganceng Yang: Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Heilongjiang University
Yanqing Jiao: Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Heilongjiang University
Haijing Yan: Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Heilongjiang University
Ying Xie: Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Heilongjiang University
Chungui Tian: Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Heilongjiang University
Aiping Wu: Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Heilongjiang University
Yu Wang: Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Heilongjiang University
Honggang Fu: Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Heilongjiang University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30495-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Production of value-added chemicals by using renewable energy and cheap water attract great interest. Herein, the authors design a paired electrocatalytic system to produce 4-aminobenzyl alcohol at cathode and 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid at anode.

Published in Nature Communications

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