Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume 9, Issue 40, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1ta04839b
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51902331, 51872311]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai [19ZR1464900]
- Shanghai International Science and Technology Cooperation Fund Project [18520723200]
- Frontier Science Key Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [QYZDB-SSW-JSC027]
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The study presents the design of two types of electrolytic cells for electrochemical synthesis, one asymmetric and the other symmetric without a membrane. Both cells efficiently produce high-purity hydrogen and silver chloride at low voltages, with a high Faraday efficiency close to 95%.
Electrosynthesis of chemicals in parallel with hydrogen production exhibits distinct advantages: energy saving and generation of two value-added products. In this work, we first design an asymmetric neutral-acidic electrolytic cell by coupling the silver oxidation reaction (AOR) in a neutral anode chamber with the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in an acid cathode chamber. When the anode electrolyte contains a certain amount of chloride ions, AgCl particles can be steadily synthesized close to, but not in contact with, the silver electrode at a fixed voltage. This electrolytic cell requires a voltage of only 1.1 V to drive 10 mA cm(-2). In order to simplify the system and reduce the cost, a symmetric acid membrane-free electrolytic cell is designed; this cell requires a voltage of only 0.95 V to drive 10 mA cm(-2) and 1.37 V to drive 250 mA cm(-2) when a silver rod and graphite rod are used as the anode and cathode, respectively. Besides high purity H-2 generation at the cathode, the anode product is pure AgCl and its size can be controlled by changing the voltage. The Faraday efficiency is close to 95% for both H-2 and AgCl generation.
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