Overcoming the Achilles Heel of Electrochemical Carbon Capture

我们面临气候变化危机，需要迅速开发和部署温室气体减排技术。电化学二氧化碳捕集是一种新兴技术，它有可能克服传统胺洗涤碳捕集的一些局限性。在这个项目中，我们的目标是解决常见电化学碳捕获方法的一个关键缺点，即与氧气发生不必要的副反应。该项目将探索用于稳定电化学二氧化碳捕获的新分子的合成和表征。我们将研究吸附的热力学，并将进行光谱分析，以了解二氧化碳捕获过程中氧化还原活性分子的形态。

We face a climate change crisis and require the rapid development and deployment of greenhouse gas mitigation technologies. Electrochemical carbon dioxide capture is an emerging technology that has the potential to overcome some of the limitations of carbon capture by traditional amine scrubbing. In this project, we aim to tackle a key disadvantage of common electrochemical carbon capture methods, viz. unwanted side reactions with oxygen. This project will explore the synthesis and characterisation of new molecules for stable electrochemical carbon dioxide capture. We will investigate the thermodynamics of adsorption and will carry out spectroscopy to understand the speciation of redox active molecules during the carbon dioxide capture process.