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Low‐Voltage Acidic CO 2 Reduction Enabled by a Diaphragm‐Based Electrolyzer (2024)
Journal Article
Perazio, A., Schreiber, M. W., Creissen, C. E., & Fontecave, M. (in press). Low‐Voltage Acidic CO 2 Reduction Enabled by a Diaphragm‐Based Electrolyzer. ChemElectroChem, 11(9), Article e202400045. https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.202400045

Large‐scale implementation of electrochemical CO2 conversion to value‐added products is currently hampered by high electrolyzer cell voltages, resulting in low energy efficiency and high operating costs. Cell voltages are typically well above 3 V and... Read More about Low‐Voltage Acidic CO 2 Reduction Enabled by a Diaphragm‐Based Electrolyzer.

Multiscale effects in tandem CO 2 electrolysis to C 2+ products (2023)
Journal Article
Cousins, L. S., & Creissen, C. E. (in press). Multiscale effects in tandem CO 2 electrolysis to C 2+ products. Nanoscale, https://doi.org/10.1039/d3nr05547g

CO2 electrolysis is a sustainable technology capable of accelerating global decarbonisation through the production of high-value alternatives to fossil-derived products. CO2 conversion can generate critical multicarbon (C2+) products such as drop-in... Read More about Multiscale effects in tandem CO 2 electrolysis to C 2+ products.

Acidic Electroreduction of CO<sub>2</sub> to Multi-Carbon Products with CO<sub>2</sub> Recovery and Recycling from Carbonate (2023)
Journal Article
Perazio, A., Creissen, C. E., Rivera de la Cruz, J. G., Schreiber, M. W., & Fontecave, M. (in press). Acidic Electroreduction of CO2 to Multi-Carbon Products with CO2 Recovery and Recycling from Carbonate. ACS Energy Letters, 8(7), 2979-2985. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.3c00901

Gas-fed flow cells can facilitate high-rate electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2R). However, under alkaline and neutral conditions, CO2 is lost through reaction with hydroxide ions to form (bi)carbonate. In acidic solutions, although (bi)carbonate is s... Read More about Acidic Electroreduction of CO<sub>2</sub> to Multi-Carbon Products with CO<sub>2</sub> Recovery and Recycling from Carbonate.

Molecular Catalysts Immobilised on Photocathodes for Solar Fuel Generation (2023)
Book Chapter
Creissen, C. E. (2023). Molecular Catalysts Immobilised on Photocathodes for Solar Fuel Generation. In Recent Developments in Functional Materials for Artificial Photosynthesis (120-156). Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781839167768-00120

The solar-driven transformation of water and carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals offers a sustainable route to bypass the use of fossil fuels. This can be achieved using molecular catalysts immobilised on semiconductor surfaces. Hybrid photocathod... Read More about Molecular Catalysts Immobilised on Photocathodes for Solar Fuel Generation.

Molecular Inhibition for Selective CO2 Conversion. (2022)
Journal Article
Creissen, C., Rivera de la Cruz, J., Karapinar, D., Taverna, D., Schreiber, M., & Fontecave, M. (2022). Molecular Inhibition for Selective CO2 Conversion. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, e202206279 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202206279

Electrochemical CO2 reduction presents a sustainable route to the production of chemicals and fuels. Achieving a narrow product distribution with heterogeneous Cu catalysts is challenging and conventional material modifications offer limited control... Read More about Molecular Inhibition for Selective CO2 Conversion..

Molecular Inhibition for Selective CO 2 Conversion (2022)
Journal Article
Creissen, C. E., Rivera de la Cruz, J. G., Karapinar, D., Taverna, D., Schreiber, M. W., & Fontecave, M. (2022). Molecular Inhibition for Selective CO 2 Conversion. Angewandte Chemie, 134(32), https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202206279

Electrochemical CO2 reduction presents a sustainable route to the production of chemicals and fuels. Achieving a narrow product distribution with heterogeneous Cu catalysts is challenging and conventional material modifications offer limited control... Read More about Molecular Inhibition for Selective CO 2 Conversion.

From Nickel Foam to Highly Active NiFe-based Oxygen Evolution Catalysts (2022)
Journal Article
Peugeot, A., Creissen, C. E., Schreiber, M. W., & Fontecave, M. (2022). From Nickel Foam to Highly Active NiFe-based Oxygen Evolution Catalysts. ChemElectroChem, 9(6), Article ARTN e202200148. https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.202200148

A key challenge for the large-scale application of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the synthesis of active, cheap and robust catalysts. Here, a straightforward procedure to form novel porous and highly active multimetallic oxygen evolution cat... Read More about From Nickel Foam to Highly Active NiFe-based Oxygen Evolution Catalysts.

Molecular Inhibition for Selective CO2 Conversion (2022)
Journal Article
Schreiber, M., Fontecave, M., Creissen, C., Guillermo Rivera de la Cruz, J., Karapinar, D., & Taverna, D. (2022). Molecular Inhibition for Selective CO2 Conversion. ChemRxiv, https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-63b91

Electrochemical CO2 reduction presents a sustainable route to the production of chemicals and fuels. Achieving a narrow product distribution with copper catalysts is challenging and conventional material modifications offer limited control over selec... Read More about Molecular Inhibition for Selective CO2 Conversion.

Solar-Driven Electrochemical CO(2)Reduction with Heterogeneous Catalysts (2021)
Journal Article
Creissen, C. E., & Fontecave, M. (2021). Solar-Driven Electrochemical CO(2)Reduction with Heterogeneous Catalysts. Laser physics review, 11(43), Article ARTN 2002652. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202002652

The simultaneous mitigation of CO2 emissions and direct generation of value-added chemicals has motivated research in solar-driven electrochemical CO2 reduction. Here, devices incorporating heterogeneous catalysts that operate under bias-free aqueous... Read More about Solar-Driven Electrochemical CO(2)Reduction with Heterogeneous Catalysts.

Advancing the Anode Compartment for Energy Efficient CO2 Reduction at Neutral pH (2021)
Journal Article
Peugeot, A., Creissen, C. E., Schreiber, M. W., & Fontecave, M. (2021). Advancing the Anode Compartment for Energy Efficient CO2 Reduction at Neutral pH. ChemElectroChem, 8(14), 2726-2736. https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.202100742

Energy efficient CO2 reduction in neutral pH requires the development of electrochemical devices operating with minimal energy input. To reach this objective, we propose an original approach focused on the anode compartment where the oxygen evolution... Read More about Advancing the Anode Compartment for Energy Efficient CO2 Reduction at Neutral pH.

Benchmarking of oxygen evolution catalysts on porous nickel supports (2021)
Journal Article
Peugeot, A., Creissen, C. E., Karapinar, D., Huan Ngoc Tran, H., Schreiber, M., & Fontecave, M. (2021). Benchmarking of oxygen evolution catalysts on porous nickel supports. Joule, 5(5), 1281-1300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2021.03.022

Active and inexpensive oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts are needed for energy-efficient electrolysis applications. Objective comparison between OER catalysts has been blurred by the use of different supports and methods to evaluate pe... Read More about Benchmarking of oxygen evolution catalysts on porous nickel supports.

Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Ethanol with Copper-Based Catalysts (2021)
Journal Article
Karapinar, D., Creissen, C. E., Rivera de la Cruz, J. G., Schreiber, M. W., & Fontecave, M. (2021). Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Ethanol with Copper-Based Catalysts. ACS Energy Letters, 6(2), 694-706. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.0c02610

Electrochemical CO2 reduction presents a sustainable route to storage of intermittent renewable energy. Ethanol is an important target product, which is used as a fuel additive and as a chemical feedstock. However, electrochemical ethanol production... Read More about Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Ethanol with Copper-Based Catalysts.

Inverse Opal CuCrO2 Photocathodes for H2 Production Using Organic Dyes and a Molecular Ni Catalyst (2019)
Journal Article
Creissen, C. E., Warnan, J., Antón-García, D., Farré, Y., Odobel, F., & Reisner, E. (2019). Inverse Opal CuCrO2 Photocathodes for H2 Production Using Organic Dyes and a Molecular Ni Catalyst. ACS catalysis, 9(10), 9530-9538. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.9b02984

Dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical (DSPEC) cells are an emerging approach to producing solar fuels. The recent development of delafossite CuCrO2 as a p-type semiconductor has enabled H2 generation through the coassembly of catalyst and dye component... Read More about Inverse Opal CuCrO2 Photocathodes for H2 Production Using Organic Dyes and a Molecular Ni Catalyst.

ZnSe Nanorods as Visible‐Light Absorbers for Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical H 2 Evolution in Water (2019)
Journal Article
Kuehnel, M. F., Creissen, C. E., Sahm, C. D., Wielend, D., Schlosser, A., Orchard, K. L., & Reisner, E. (2019). ZnSe Nanorods as Visible‐Light Absorbers for Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical H 2 Evolution in Water. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58(15), 5059-5063. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201814265

A precious-metal- and Cd-free photocatalyst system for efficient H2 evolution from aqueous protons with a performance comparable to Cd-based quantum dots is presented. Rod-shaped ZnSe nanocrystals (nanorods, NRs) with a Ni(BF4)2 co-catalyst suspended... Read More about ZnSe Nanorods as Visible‐Light Absorbers for Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical H 2 Evolution in Water.

Solar H2 generation in water with a CuCrO2 photocathode modified with an organic dye and molecular Ni catalyst (2017)
Journal Article
Creissen, C., Warnan, J., & Reisner, E. (2017). Solar H2 generation in water with a CuCrO2 photocathode modified with an organic dye and molecular Ni catalyst. Chemical Science, 1439 - 1447. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7SC04476C

H2 generation using a Ni catalyst on dye-sensitised CuCrO2 highlights the benefits of using delafossite semiconductors for solar fuel production.