著者
Ryosuke NAKAZATO Keeko MATSUMOTO Noboru YAMAGUCHI Margherita CAVALLO Valentina CROCELLÀ Francesca BONINO Matthias QUINTELIER Joke HADERMANN Nataly Carolina ROSERO-NAVARRO Akira MIURA Kiyoharu TADANAGA
出版者
The Electrochemical Society of Japan
雑誌
Electrochemistry (ISSN:13443542)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.91, no.9, pp.097003, 2023-09-26 (Released:2023-09-26)
参考文献数
49
被引用文献数
2

Carbon dioxide electrochemical reduction (CO2ER) has attracted considerable attention as a technology to recycle CO2 into raw materials for chemicals using renewable energies. We recently found that Zn-Al layered double hydroxides (Zn-Al LDH) have the CO-forming CO2ER activity. However, the activity was only evaluated by using the liquid-phase CO2ER. In this study, Ni-Al and Ni-Fe LDHs as well as Zn-Al LDH were synthesized using a facile coprecipitation process and the gas-phase CO2ER with the LDH-loaded gas-diffusion electrode (GDE) was examined. The products were characterized by XRD, STEM-EDX, BF-TEM and ATR-IR spectroscopy. In the ATR-IR results, the interaction of CO2 with Zn-Al LDH showed a different carbonates evolution with respect to other LDHs, suggesting a different electrocatalytic activity. The LDH-loaded GDE was prepared by simple drop-casting of a catalyst ink onto carbon paper. For gas-phase CO2ER, only Zn-Al LDH exhibited the CO2ER activity for carbon monoxide (CO) formation. By using different potassium salt electrolytes affording neutral to strongly basic conditions, such as KCl, KHCO3 and KOH, the gas-phase CO2ER with Zn-Al LDH-loaded GDE showed 1.3 to 2.1 times higher partial current density for CO formation than the liquid-phase CO2ER.