Issue 38, 2022

Investigating the role of potassium cations during electrochemical CO2 reduction

Abstract

The specific identity of electrolyte cations has many implications in various electrochemical reactions. However, the exact mechanism by which cations affect electrochemical reactions is not agreed upon in the literature. In this report, we investigate the role of cations during the electrochemical reduction of CO2 by chelating the cations with cryptands, to change the interaction of the cations with the components of the electric double layer. As previously reported we do see the apparent suppression of CO2 reduction in the absence of cations. However, using in situ-SEIRAS we see that CO2 reduction does indeed take place albeit at very reduced scales. We also observe that cations play a role in tuning the absorption strengths of not only CO2 as has been speculated, but also that of reaction products such as CO.

Graphical abstract: Investigating the role of potassium cations during electrochemical CO2 reduction

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
22 6 2022
Accepted
23 8 2022
First published
23 8 2022

Nanoscale, 2022,14, 14185-14190

Investigating the role of potassium cations during electrochemical CO2 reduction

S. Chandrashekar, H. I. van Montfort, D. Bohra, G. Filonenko, H. Geerlings, T. Burdyny and W. A. Smith, Nanoscale, 2022, 14, 14185 DOI: 10.1039/D2NR03438G

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