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Bifunctional Ionic Deep Eutectic Electrolytes for CO(2) Electroreduction

[Image: see text] CO(2) is a low-cost monomer capable of promoting industrially scalable carboxylation reactions. Sustainable activation of CO(2) through electroreduction process (ECO(2)R) can be achieved in stable electrolyte media. This study synthesized and characterized novel diethyl ammonium ch...

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Autores principales: Halilu, Ahmed, Hadj-Kali, Mohamed Kamel, Hashim, Mohd Ali, Yusoff, Rozita, Aroua, Mohamed Kheireddine
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Publicado: American Chemical Society 2022
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9608392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36312381
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c04739
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author Halilu, Ahmed
Hadj-Kali, Mohamed Kamel
Hashim, Mohd Ali
Yusoff, Rozita
Aroua, Mohamed Kheireddine
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Hadj-Kali, Mohamed Kamel
Hashim, Mohd Ali
Yusoff, Rozita
Aroua, Mohamed Kheireddine
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description [Image: see text] CO(2) is a low-cost monomer capable of promoting industrially scalable carboxylation reactions. Sustainable activation of CO(2) through electroreduction process (ECO(2)R) can be achieved in stable electrolyte media. This study synthesized and characterized novel diethyl ammonium chloride−diethanolamine bifunctional ionic deep eutectic electrolyte (DEACl–DEA), using diethanolamine (DEA) as hydrogen bond donors (HBD) and diethyl ammonium chloride (DEACl) as hydrogen bond acceptors (HBA). The DEACl–DEA has −69.78 °C deep eutectic point and cathodic electrochemical stability limit of −1.7 V versus Ag/AgCl. In the DEACl–DEA (1:3) electrolyte, electroreduction of CO(2) to CO(2)(•–) was achieved at −1.5 V versus Ag/AgCl, recording a faradaic efficiency (FE) of 94%. After 350 s of continuous CO(2) sparging, an asymptotic current response is reached, and DEACl–DEA (1:3) has an ambient CO(2) capture capacity of 52.71 mol/L. However, DEACl–DEA has a low faradaic efficiency <94% and behaves like a regular amine during the CO(2) electroreduction process when mole ratios of HBA–HBD are greater than 1:3. The electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and COSMO-RS analyses confirmed that the bifunctional CO(2) sorption by the DEACl–DEA (1:3) electrolyte promote the ECO(2)R process. According to the EIS, high CO(2) coverage on the DEACl–DEA/Ag-electrode surface induces an electrochemical double layer capacitance (EDCL) of 3.15 × 10(–9) F, which is lower than the 8.76 × 10(–9) F for the ordinary DEACl–DEA/Ag-electrode. COSMO-RS analysis shows that the decrease in EDCL arises due to the interaction of CO(2) non-polar sites (0.314, 0.097, and 0.779 e/nm(2)) with that of DEACl (0.013, 0.567 e/nm(2)) and DEA (0.115, 0.396 e/nm(2)). These results establish for the first time that a higher cathodic limit beyond the typical CO(2) reduction potential is a criterion for using any deep eutectic electrolytes for sustainable CO(2) electroreduction process.
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spelling pubmed-96083922022-10-28 Bifunctional Ionic Deep Eutectic Electrolytes for CO(2) Electroreduction Halilu, Ahmed Hadj-Kali, Mohamed Kamel Hashim, Mohd Ali Yusoff, Rozita Aroua, Mohamed Kheireddine ACS Omega [Image: see text] CO(2) is a low-cost monomer capable of promoting industrially scalable carboxylation reactions. Sustainable activation of CO(2) through electroreduction process (ECO(2)R) can be achieved in stable electrolyte media. This study synthesized and characterized novel diethyl ammonium chloride−diethanolamine bifunctional ionic deep eutectic electrolyte (DEACl–DEA), using diethanolamine (DEA) as hydrogen bond donors (HBD) and diethyl ammonium chloride (DEACl) as hydrogen bond acceptors (HBA). The DEACl–DEA has −69.78 °C deep eutectic point and cathodic electrochemical stability limit of −1.7 V versus Ag/AgCl. In the DEACl–DEA (1:3) electrolyte, electroreduction of CO(2) to CO(2)(•–) was achieved at −1.5 V versus Ag/AgCl, recording a faradaic efficiency (FE) of 94%. After 350 s of continuous CO(2) sparging, an asymptotic current response is reached, and DEACl–DEA (1:3) has an ambient CO(2) capture capacity of 52.71 mol/L. However, DEACl–DEA has a low faradaic efficiency <94% and behaves like a regular amine during the CO(2) electroreduction process when mole ratios of HBA–HBD are greater than 1:3. The electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and COSMO-RS analyses confirmed that the bifunctional CO(2) sorption by the DEACl–DEA (1:3) electrolyte promote the ECO(2)R process. According to the EIS, high CO(2) coverage on the DEACl–DEA/Ag-electrode surface induces an electrochemical double layer capacitance (EDCL) of 3.15 × 10(–9) F, which is lower than the 8.76 × 10(–9) F for the ordinary DEACl–DEA/Ag-electrode. COSMO-RS analysis shows that the decrease in EDCL arises due to the interaction of CO(2) non-polar sites (0.314, 0.097, and 0.779 e/nm(2)) with that of DEACl (0.013, 0.567 e/nm(2)) and DEA (0.115, 0.396 e/nm(2)). These results establish for the first time that a higher cathodic limit beyond the typical CO(2) reduction potential is a criterion for using any deep eutectic electrolytes for sustainable CO(2) electroreduction process. American Chemical Society 2022-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9608392/ /pubmed/36312381 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c04739 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Permits non-commercial access and re-use, provided that author attribution and integrity are maintained; but does not permit creation of adaptations or other derivative works (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Hadj-Kali, Mohamed Kamel
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Bifunctional Ionic Deep Eutectic Electrolytes for CO(2) Electroreduction
title Bifunctional Ionic Deep Eutectic Electrolytes for CO(2) Electroreduction
title_full Bifunctional Ionic Deep Eutectic Electrolytes for CO(2) Electroreduction
title_fullStr Bifunctional Ionic Deep Eutectic Electrolytes for CO(2) Electroreduction
title_full_unstemmed Bifunctional Ionic Deep Eutectic Electrolytes for CO(2) Electroreduction
title_short Bifunctional Ionic Deep Eutectic Electrolytes for CO(2) Electroreduction
title_sort bifunctional ionic deep eutectic electrolytes for co(2) electroreduction
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9608392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36312381
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c04739
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