Prof. Licheng Sun’s group has published their work in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, revealing the significant role of passivating the competitive oxygen evolution process during HMF oxidation.
Prof. Licheng Sun’s group in the Department of Chemistry at Westlake University recently published a research paper in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. The paper is titled “Highly Efficient Biomass Upgrading by a Ni−Cu Electrocatalyst Featuring Passivation of Water Oxidation Activity.”
This work reveals that Cu doping in a Ni−Cu electrocatalyst impedes the OH* deprotonation step, thereby suppressing the oxygen evolution reaction and achieving ~100% FE for HMF oxidation to produce FDCA, with a high current density of up to 1000 mA cm−2.
Ph.D. student Dexin Chen from Westlake University is the first author. Prof. Licheng Sun from the Department of Chemistry at Westlake University is the corresponding author.