Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Molecular cobalt corrole complex for the heterogeneous electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide

  • Sabrina Gonglach,
  • Shounik Paul,
  • Michael Haas,
  • Felix Pillwein,
  • Sreekumar S. Sreejith,
  • Soumitra Barman,
  • Ratnadip De,
  • Stefan Müllegger,
  • Philipp Gerschel,
  • Ulf-Peter Apfel,
  • Halime Coskun,
  • Abdalaziz Aljabour,
  • Philipp Stadler,
  • Wolfgang Schöfberger,
  • Soumyajit Roy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11868-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide to ethanol is one of the most challenging energy conversion reactions. Here the authors show selective electroreduction of carbon dioxide to ethanol by using a functionalized cobalt A3-corrole catalyst immobilized on a carbon paper electrode.