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Title: Electrocatalytic process for carbon dioxide conversion

Abstract

An electrocatalytic process for carbon dioxide conversion includes combining a Catalytically Active Element and a Helper Polymer in the presence of carbon dioxide, allowing a reaction to proceed to produce a reaction product, and applying electrical energy to said reaction to achieve electrochemical conversion of said carbon dioxide reactant to said reaction product. The Catalytically Active Element can be a metal in the form of supported or unsupported particles or flakes with an average size between 0.6 nm and 100 nm. The reaction products comprise at least one of CO, HCO.sup.-, H.sub.2CO, (HCO.sub.2).sup.-, H.sub.2CO.sub.2, CH.sub.3OH, CH.sub.4, C.sub.2H.sub.4, CH.sub.3CH.sub.2OH, CH.sub.3COO.sup.-, CH.sub.3COOH, C.sub.2H.sub.6, (COOH).sub.2, (COO.sup.-).sub.2, and CF.sub.3COOH.

Inventors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Dioxide Materials, Inc., Boca Raton, FL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1409024
Patent Number(s):
9,815,021
Application Number:
15/400,712
Assignee:
Dioxide Materials, Inc. (Boca Raton, FL)
DOE Contract Number:  
SC0004453; AR0000345; AR000068
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2017 Jan 06
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Citation Formats

Masel, Richard I., Salehi-Khojin, Amin, and Kutz, Robert. Electrocatalytic process for carbon dioxide conversion. United States: N. p., 2017. Web.
Masel, Richard I., Salehi-Khojin, Amin, & Kutz, Robert. Electrocatalytic process for carbon dioxide conversion. United States.
Masel, Richard I., Salehi-Khojin, Amin, and Kutz, Robert. 2017. "Electrocatalytic process for carbon dioxide conversion". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1409024.
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abstractNote = {An electrocatalytic process for carbon dioxide conversion includes combining a Catalytically Active Element and a Helper Polymer in the presence of carbon dioxide, allowing a reaction to proceed to produce a reaction product, and applying electrical energy to said reaction to achieve electrochemical conversion of said carbon dioxide reactant to said reaction product. The Catalytically Active Element can be a metal in the form of supported or unsupported particles or flakes with an average size between 0.6 nm and 100 nm. The reaction products comprise at least one of CO, HCO.sup.-, H.sub.2CO, (HCO.sub.2).sup.-, H.sub.2CO.sub.2, CH.sub.3OH, CH.sub.4, C.sub.2H.sub.4, CH.sub.3CH.sub.2OH, CH.sub.3COO.sup.-, CH.sub.3COOH, C.sub.2H.sub.6, (COOH).sub.2, (COO.sup.-).sub.2, and CF.sub.3COOH.},
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