I. Stephens, Karen Chan, A. Bagger, S. Boettcher, J. Bonin, E. Boutin, Aya K. Buckley, R. Buonsanti, Etosha R. Cave, X. Chang, See Wee Chee, Alisson H. M. da Silva, Phil de Luna, O. Einsle, B. Endrődi, María Escudero‐Escribano, Jorge Ferreira de Araujo, M. Figueiredo, Christopher Hahn, K. Hansen, S. Haussener, Sara Hunegnaw, Ziyang Huo, Y. Hwang, C. Janáky, Buddhinie S. Jayathilake, F. Jiao, Zarko P. Jovanov, P. Karimi, M. Koper, K. Kuhl, W. Lee, Zhiqin Liang, Xuan Liu, Sichao Ma, Ming-Qian Ma, Hyung‐Suk Oh, Marc Robert, B. Cuenya, J. Rossmeisl, C. Roy, M. Ryan, E. Sargent, Paula Sebastián‐Pascual, B. Seger, L. Steier, P. Strasser, A. Varela, R. Vos, Xue Wang, Bingjun Xu, H. Yadegari, Yuxiang Zhou
2022.6.13Journal of Physics-Energy
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Electrochemical CO2 reduction technology faces challenges of energy efficiency, selectivity, and stability to commercialize its use in renewable electricity storage and sustainable chemical production.
Abstract
Electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2R) is an attractive option for storing renewable electricity and for the sustainable production of valuable chemicals and fuels. In this roadmap, we review recent progress in fundamental understanding, catalyst development, and in engineering and scale-up. We discuss the outstanding challenges towards commercialization of electrochemical CO2R technology: energy efficiencies, selectivities, low current densities, and stability. We highlight the opportunities in establishing rigorous standards for benchmarking performance, advances in in operando characterization, the discovery of new materials towards high value products, the investigation of phenomena across multiple-length scales and the application of data science towards doing so. We hope that this collective perspective sparks new research activities that ultimately bring us a step closer towards establishing a low- or zero-emission carbon cycle.
Citation format
STEPHENS, I., et al. 2022 roadmap on low temperature electrochemical CO2 reduction. Journal of Physics-Energy, 2022, 4.