Elisabeth Leeb, Dominik Wielend, Corina Schimanofsky, Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci
{"title":"Substrate and pH-dependent homogeneous electrocatalysis using riboflavin for oxygen reduction","authors":"Elisabeth Leeb, Dominik Wielend, Corina Schimanofsky, Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci","doi":"10.1002/elsa.202100211","DOIUrl":"10.1002/elsa.202100211","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Homogeneous, aqueous solutions of the natural compound riboflavin were investigated for their electrocatalytic oxygen to hydrogen peroxide (H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>) reduction performance using cyclic voltammetry and electrolysis. In addition to pH dependencies, interestingly the choice of carbon-based electrode material had a strong impact on the electrocatalytic performance. Therefore, the three electrode materials, glassy carbon, carbon paper (CP), and carbon felt were electrochemically compared and afterwards investigated with scanning electron microscopy. Attributed to the deprotonation of riboflavin, pH = 13 was identified as the best performing condition. Using CP at pH = 13, the addition of riboflavin enhanced the H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> production by a factor of 14 up to 355 μmol after 6 h at an average faradaic efficiency of around 80%.</p>","PeriodicalId":93746,"journal":{"name":"Electrochemical science advances","volume":"2 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/elsa.202100211","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46190489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benedikt Peter, Daniela Stoeckel, Torsten Scherer, Christian Kuebel, Christina Roth, Julia Melke
{"title":"Impact of catalyst support morphology on 3D electrode structure and polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell performance","authors":"Benedikt Peter, Daniela Stoeckel, Torsten Scherer, Christian Kuebel, Christina Roth, Julia Melke","doi":"10.1002/elsa.202100121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/elsa.202100121","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Porous carbon-based electrodes are frequently applied in electrochemical energy technologies, for instance in fuel cells and redox flow batteries. In previous work, we observed that the final structure of a fuel cell electrode is dominated by both the morphology of the support material and its processing into a 3D porous structure. Herein, the impact of catalyst support morphology on the performance of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells was studied comparing carbon-supported platinum catalysts only differing in the shape of the carbon support material with otherwise similar features. Carbon-supported Pt catalysts were obtained by carbonization of polyaniline (PANI) in long fibrous, short fibrous, and granular shape. The chemical identity of the PANI precursors was demonstrated by FTIR spectroscopy and elemental analysis (EA). The final carbon-supported platinum catalysts were characterized by EA, Raman spectroscopy, XRD, and TEM exhibiting similar degree of carbonization, nanoparticle size, and nanoparticle dispersion. The effect of support morphology and the resulting differences in the 3D structure of the porous electrode were investigated by focused ion beam-scanning electron microscopy slice and view technique and correlated to their fuel cell performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":93746,"journal":{"name":"Electrochemical science advances","volume":"3 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/elsa.202100121","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50152000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conversion of a CO–CO2 co-feed with a porous tubular copper catalyst at low potential","authors":"Anne Clara Sustronk, Nieck Edwin Benes, Guido Mul","doi":"10.1002/elsa.202100198","DOIUrl":"10.1002/elsa.202100198","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the electrochemical reduction of CO<sub>2</sub>, copper electrodes are well known to be active and selective for a variety of products, depending on process conditions. However, the effect of feed composition on performance has not been extensively investigated, especially with respect to the conversion of CO<sub>2</sub> to CO. We now show for copper electrodes in a porous tubular configuration (Hollow Fibre Electrodes, HFEs) at a relatively low working potential (−1.1 V vs Ag/AgCl), that an increasing concentration of CO in the feed results in a decreasing CO<sub>2</sub> conversion rate to CO. Contrary, it is observed that the concomitant hydrogen production rate does not depend on the concentration of CO in the feed. These observations are in good agreement with thermodynamic predictions applying the equation for the Gibbs energy of reaction. On the basis of this conclusion, we anticipate that mass transfer limitations are minimized by the tubular morphology and flow-through mode of operation. Most importantly, this study shows the necessity of a low CO concentration in the feed, to obtain a high CO<sub>2</sub> conversion rate.</p>","PeriodicalId":93746,"journal":{"name":"Electrochemical science advances","volume":"3 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/elsa.202100198","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45292759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthias Heßelmann, Berinike Clara Bräsel, Robert Gregor Keller, Matthias Wessling
{"title":"Simulation-based guidance for improving \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 CO\u0000 2\u0000 \u0000 ${rm CO}_{2}$\u0000 reduction on silver gas diffusion electrodes","authors":"Matthias Heßelmann, Berinike Clara Bräsel, Robert Gregor Keller, Matthias Wessling","doi":"10.1002/elsa.202100160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/elsa.202100160","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The reduction of <math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>CO</mi>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 <annotation>${rm CO}_{2}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> in an electrochemical reactor using electrical energy is a promising approach to implement a more sustainable carbon economy and to replace fossil fuels with renewable carbon sources. Conventionally used solid plate electrodes are limited by poor mass transport of the reactants. Gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs) can overcome this limitation and have gained industrial relevance during the last decades. A comprehensive understanding of transport and conversion phenomena within such porous electrodes is not yet well developed. Here, we report a one-dimensional steady state model of the GDE to investigate the influence of relevant operational parameters and GDE properties on <math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>CO</mi>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 <annotation>${rm CO}_{2}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> reduction. The results indicate the importance of controlling the local reaction environment, that is, the reactant concentration and the pH value, by tuning the electrolyte and gas composition, and flow rate as well as the catalyst layer properties.</p>","PeriodicalId":93746,"journal":{"name":"Electrochemical science advances","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/elsa.202100160","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50123744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}