Research scientists at Dioxide Materials in Boca Raton, Florida have developed a novel electrochemical technology that converts carbon dioxide (CO2), water and renewable energy to produce green fuels and chemicals to enable a low carbon future.
The technology can be used to convert CO2 into many products, meeting numerous customer needs. Currently, the main industrial-scale use of carbon monoxide (CO) is in synthesis gas, a mixture of CO and hydrogen (H2), which is currently produced from natural gas or coal.
The Dioxide Materials team has developed two new materials that enable its new process. Novel Sustainion® anion exchange membranes, that are both alkali stable and have at least twice the ionic conductivity of the nearest competitor, and the Sustainion® additives in the catalyst layer which lower the overpotential of the reaction, raising the reaction selectivity to great than 95%, allowing the electrolysers to operate at commercial current densities of 200 mA/cm2 and higher.
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