Journal
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Volume 15, Issue 5, Pages 2061-2070Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1ee03957a
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- Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-SC0004993]
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) [57504612]
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, Germany) within the CO2-WIN initiative [033RC021B]
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This study demonstrates a wireless device that can convert CO2 and water into carbon monoxide and hydrogen under high solar illumination intensity. The fluctuations in device performance are analyzed by deconvoluting the contributions of electrochemistry and photoabsorption. The results show that wireless integration can improve heat dissipation and increase conversion efficiency.
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) conversion of carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and fuels represents a promising path towards combating anthropogenic CO2 emissions. However, the limited conversion efficiencies, operation lifetimes and CO2 utilization efficiencies of PEC devices currently prohibit their application beyond the laboratory scale. Here, a wireless device converting CO2 and water into carbon monoxide and hydrogen at a peak solar conversion efficiency exceeding 16% under an illumination intensity of 5 suns is demonstrated. A CO/H-2 product ratio between 10-20 is measured during a 17 h stability test. Fluctuations in device performance are rigorously analyzed via deconvolution of electrochemical and photoabsorber contributions. It is demonstrated that beneficial heat dissipation is enabled by wireless integration of the photoabsorber and electrocatalyst components, accounting for roughly 10% of the achieved conversion efficiency, an achievement unattainable with physically separated photoabsorber and electrolyzer components.
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