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Direct membrane deposition for CO₂ electrolysis

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.3c01716
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  1. National Research Council of Canada. Clean Energy Innovation
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Abstract
The use of forward-bias bipolar membranes (f-BPM) in CO₂ electrolyzers offers the advantage of avoiding costly CO₂ reactant loss. However, current f-BPM-based electrolyzers require a high voltage and produce H₂ at the expense of CO₂ reduction products. In this work, we develop a direct membrane deposition (DMD) approach that combines anion and cation exchange membranes (AEM and CEM, respectively) to increase transport and facilitate CO₂ regeneration. The DMD approach provides flexibility to tune the properties of the composite and optimize the AEM:CEM ratio for low resistance and low H₂ evolution. Compared to a standard f-BPM, the DMD approach reduced the H₂ Faradaic efficiency by 2-fold (25% vs 12%, respectively), reduced mass transport resistance by over 50%, decreased full-cell potential by 0.84 V, increased the selectivity toward multicarbon products by over 2-fold (29% vs 65%, respectively), and achieved >17% in multicarbon product energy efficiency at 300 mA cm⁻².
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PublisherAmerican Chemical Society
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  • ACS Energy Letters 8, no. 11 (10 November 2023): 4674–4683.
LanguageEnglish
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