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. 2023 Mar 23;14:1599. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36688-6

Fig. 4. Amperage-current CO2-to-CO electrolysis in 100 cm2 MEA.

Fig. 4

a Front-viewed, b side-viewed, and c runner-viewed photograph of the homemade MEA configuration (100 cm2). d CO and H2 Faradaic efficiencies on the Co-CNTs-MW catalyst in the range of current from 1 to 10 A in the MEA sized of 100 cm2. The error bars represent the standard deviation of three measurements. e The single-pass conversion of Co-CNTs-MW catalyst compared with CO2RR electrocatalysts (CO2 flow rate: 80 sccm from 1 to 5 A and 150 sccm from 8 to 10 A). More details were summarized in Table S6. f Spider chart comparing the performance metrics constructed from the data published for CO2-to-CO electrolyzers. g Long-term electrolysis under a current of 2 A in MEA sized of 100 cm2 (0.1 M KHCO3). After 50 h of amperage-current electrolysis under a current of 2 A, the catalyst still behaves FECO nearly over 90%, and exhibits FECO of 85.6% after 60 h. The cell voltage keeps around ~2.88 V when excluding the external resistance (~3.10 V without excluding the external resistance) during the electrolysis. The loading of Co-CNTs-MW is 1.0 mg cm−2.