Standards and Protocols for Data Acquisition and Reporting for Studies of the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide

By E. Clark, Joaquin Resasco, A. Landers, John C. Lin, L. Chung, Amber Walton, C. Hahn, T. Jaramillo, A. Bell. ACS Catalysis, 2018

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Objective evaluation of the performance of electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction has been complicated by a lack of standardized methods for measuring and reporting activity data. In this perspective, we advocate that standardizing these practices can aid in advancing research efforts toward the development of efficient and selective CO2 reduction electrocatalysts. Using information taken from experimental studies, we identify variables that influence the measured activity of CO2 reduction electrocatalysts and propose procedures to account for these variables in order to improve the accuracy and reproducibility of reported data. We recommend that catalysts be measured under conditions which do not introduce artifacts from impurities, from either the electrolyte or counter electrode, and advocate the acquisition of data measured in the absence of mass transport effects. Furthermore, measured rates of electrochemical reactions should be normalized to both the geometric electrode area as well as the electrochemi...

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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• Current achievements and the future direction of electrochemical CO2 reduction: A short review (2020, result): “For instance, recent studies by Clark and Resasco et al. emphasized the effect of controlling experimental variables on performances of electrochemical CO2 reduction and suggested methods for data acquisition and reporting (Clark et al., 2018).”
• 2022 roadmap on low temperature electrochemical CO2 reduction (2022, background): “Another challenge is rationally extracting the intrinsic reaction kinetics from benchmarking, which is important to accurately compare data for catalysts measured in different electrochemical cells [44].”