Carbon dioxide reduction to alcohols using Perovskite-type electrocatalysts

• Published in: Journal of the Electrochemical Society Vol. 140; no. 3; pp. 614 - 618
• Main Authors: SCHWARTZ, M, COOK, R. L, KEHOE, V. M, MACDUFF, R. C, PATEL, J, SAMMELLS, A. F
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pennington, NJ Electrochemical Society 01.03.1993
• Subjects: 10 SYNTHETIC FUELS; ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; AIR POLLUTION ABATEMENT; ALCOHOLS; ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPOUNDS; CARBON COMPOUNDS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON OXIDES; CATALYSTS; CHALCOGENIDES; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATIC CHANGE; COPPER COMPOUNDS; COPPER OXIDES; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ETHANOL; Exact sciences and technology; FUELS; GADOLINIUM COMPOUNDS; GADOLINIUM OXIDES; General and physical chemistry; HYDROXY COMPOUNDS; Kinetics and mechanism of reactions; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; LANTHANUM OXIDES; LIQUID FUELS; METHANOL; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PEROVSKITES; POLLUTION ABATEMENT; PRASEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS; PRASEODYMIUM OXIDES; PROPANOLS; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS; REDUCTION; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; STRONTIUM OXIDES; SYNTHESIS; THORIUM COMPOUNDS; THORIUM OXIDES; TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS 100200 > Synthetic Fuels > Production > (1990-); Copper Lanthanum Strontium Oxides Mixed; Solvent effect; Incorporation; Electrolyte solution; Tetrafluoroethylene polymer; Carbon dioxide; Gas electrode; Experimental study; Carbon; X ray diffraction; Inorganic compound; Chemical reduction; Electrocatalysis; Perovskite; Concentration effect; Aqueous solution; Copper Lanthanum Thorium Oxides Mixed; Copper Lanthanide Strontium Oxides Mixed; Current density; Catalyst
• ISSN: 0013-4651; 1945-7111
• DOI: 10.1149/1.2056131

Reduction under ambient conditions is attained using rare-earth cuprate perovskites as long as copper ions occupy the B sites. Faradic efficiencies as high as 40% were observed. 35 refs.