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A MoO3–CoOOH synergistic catalyst for low-voltage paired glycerol electrolysis

Genxiang Wang,ab   Pengzhen Zhang,a   Jun Wang,b   Junfeng Wang,a   Xiang Hu, ORCID logo b   Zhiwen Lu,b   Jing Yang,*ac   Zhenhai Wen ORCID logo *b  and  Hao Zhang ORCID logo *de  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Energy and Power Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China
E-mail: jingyang@ujs.edu.cn

b Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
E-mail: wen@fjirsm.ac.cn

c Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong S.A.R, China

d State Key Laboratory of Chem/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
E-mail: hzhchem@mit.edu

e Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Abstract

A synergistic MoO3–Co(OH)2 precatalyst achieves efficient glycerol oxidation to formate in alkaline media, where in situ formed CoOOH serves as the active phase and MoO3 enhances glycerol adsorption. Coupling this anodic reaction with an acidic HER in a hybrid electrolyzer achieves concurrent formate and H2 production at a voltage of 0.44 V.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D6CC00289G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
15 Jan 2026
Accepted
12 Mar 2026
First published
13 Mar 2026
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article

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A MoO3–CoOOH synergistic catalyst for low-voltage paired glycerol electrolysis

G. Wang, P. Zhang, J. Wang, J. Wang, X. Hu, Z. Lu, J. Yang, Z. Wen and H. Zhang, Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/D6CC00289G

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