Electrocatalytic reforming of waste plastics into high value-added chemicals and hydrogen fuel
The upcycling of waste plastic offers an attractive way to protect the environment and turn waste into value-added chemicals and H 2 fuel. Herein, we report a novel electroreforming strategy to upcycle waste polyethylene terephthalate into high value-added chemicals, such as terephthalate and carbon...
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Published in | Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) Vol. 57; no. 94; pp. 12595 - 12598 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Cambridge
Royal Society of Chemistry
25.11.2021
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Subjects | |
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Summary: | The upcycling of waste plastic offers an attractive way to protect the environment and turn waste into value-added chemicals and H
2
fuel. Herein, we report a novel electroreforming strategy to upcycle waste polyethylene terephthalate into high value-added chemicals, such as terephthalate and carbonate, over a Pd modified Ni foam catalyst. This system exhibits excellent electrocatalytic activity (400 mA cm
−2
at 0.7 V
vs.
RHE) and high selectivity (95%)/faradaic efficiency (93%) for the product carbonate. Our work demonstrates a technology that can not only transform waste polyethylene terephthalate into value-added chemicals but also generate H
2
fuel
via
an all-in-one electro-driven process.
We report an electroreforming strategy to upcycle waste PET into value-added chemicals and H
2
using Pd as the anode and Ni foam as the cathode. |
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Bibliography: | Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Supplemental experiment section. See DOI 10.1039/d1cc05032j ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 1359-7345 1364-548X |
DOI: | 10.1039/d1cc05032j |