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Electrochemical CO2 Utilisation
CO2 Capture & Utilisation
CO2 Capture & Utilisation
CO2 Capture & Utilisation
CO2 Capture & Utilisation
Power production from combustion of fossil fuels releases CO2, which is mainly responsible for global warming and cause severe problems to both ecology and human beings. The rise in atmospheric CO2 levels must be slowed or reverted to avoid undesirable climate change. Materials capable of cost-effective CO2 conversion into chemicals and fuels would help in stabilizing the atmospheric levels of greenhouse gas. The potential products can be obtained with CO2 conversion are formic acid, methanol, CO and ethylene. At present there is no commercially viable process for the conversion of CO2 to useful chemicals and the current state-of-the-art materials are expensive, which limit commercial implementation. For example, although several materials are known for the electrochemical conversion of CO2, until now only precious metals such as Au and Ag could promote this process with Faradaic efficiency more than 80%. Because of the durability and poisoning effect many efficient catalysts are far beyond commercialization. We strategically focus on the synthesis of nanomaterials in various forms (metals, bimetals, alloys, intermetallic, core shell etc.) and study their efficiency in the photochemical, electrochemical and heterogeneous conversion of CO2 into fuel and chemicals. The reaction mechanism and kinteics are completely understood by a detailed electronic structure calculations. Our materials and methods are expected to have the potential to convert waste CO2 to produce gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, and industrial chemicals.
Power production from combustion of fossil fuels releases CO2, which is mainly responsible for global warming and cause severe problems to both ecology and human beings. The rise in atmospheric CO2 levels must be slowed or reverted to avoid undesirable climate change. Materials capable of cost-effective CO2 conversion into chemicals and fuels would help in stabilizing the atmospheric levels of greenhouse gas. The potential products can be obtained with CO2 conversion are formic acid, methanol, CO and ethylene. At present there is no commercially viable process for the conversion of CO2 to useful chemicals and the current state-of-the-art materials are expensive, which limit commercial implementation. For example, although several materials are known for the electrochemical conversion of CO2, until now only precious metals such as Au and Ag could promote this process with Faradaic efficiency more than 80%. Because of the durability and poisoning effect many efficient catalysts are far beyond commercialization. We strategically focus on the synthesis of nanomaterials in various forms (metals, bimetals, alloys, intermetallic, core shell etc.) and study their efficiency in the photochemical, electrochemical and heterogeneous conversion of CO2 into fuel and chemicals. The reaction mechanism and kinteics are completely understood by a detailed electronic structure calculations. Our materials and methods are expected to have the potential to convert waste CO2 to produce gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, and industrial chemicals.
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Solid State Chemistry and Catalysis Lab
Prof. Sebastian C. Peter
Publication List (2020)
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An Overview on the Structural Diversity of Europium based Ternary Intermetallics. Ramarao, S. D.; Singh, A. K.; Subbarao, U.; Peter. S. C. J. Solid State Chem., 2020, 281, 121048.
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Stress Induced Electronic Structure Modulation of Mn-incorporated Ni2P Leading to Enhanced Activity for Water-Splitting, Sarkar, S.; Dheer, L.; Vinod, C. P.; Thapa, R.; Waghmare, U. V.; Peter, S. C. ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2020, 3, 1271-1278
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Highly Efficient Bifunctional Oxygen Reduction/Evolution Activity in a Non-Precious Nanocomposite Derived from Tetrazine-COF. Roy, S.; Marri, S.; Sai, M. K.; Sarma, S. C.; Sarkar, S.; Peter, S. C. Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 22718-22734
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Deconvoluted Quantification of Phase-Size-Strain Effects in Metal Carbide Nanocrystals for Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution. Roy, S.; Bagchi, D.; Vemuri, V.; Sarma, S. C.; Ahuja, V.; Rajaji, V.; Narayana, C.; Peter, S. C. Nanoscale, 2020,12, 15414-15425
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Review of Catalyst Design and Mechanistic Studies for the Production of Olefins from Anthropogenic CO2. D. Goud, R. Gupta, R.-M. Ganesh, S. C. Peter ACS Catal., 2020, 10, 14258-14282 (Impact factor: 12.35)
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CO2 capture and sequestration - A solution for enhanced recoveries of unconventional gases and liquids. Gupta, R.; Peter, S. C. Energ. Climate Change 2020, 1, 100003.
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Rare-Earth Based half-Heusler Topological Quantum Materials: A Perspective. Singh, A. K.; Ramarao, S. D.; Peter, S. C. APL Mater., 2020, 8, 060903.
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Tweaking Palladium Electronic Structure to Attain Oxygen Reduction Activity Superior to Platinum/C. Sarma, S. C.; Manoj, K. S.; Mishra, V.; Vinod, C. P.; Peter, S. C. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2020, 3, 6127-6132.
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Operando Sodiation Mechanistic Study of a New Antimony based Intermetallic CoSb as High Performance Sodium Ion Battery Anode. Sarkar, S.; Chaupatnaik, A.; Barpanda, P.; Peter, S. C. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2020, 124, 15757
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Polyaniline Hybrid Nanofibers via Green Interfacial Polymerization for All-Solid-State Symmetric Supercapacitors Konwar, G.; Sarma, S. C.; Mahanta, D.; Peter, S. C. ACS Omega, 2020, 5, 14494–14501
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Microstructural and magnetic properties of epitaxial Ni50Mn37/35Sn13/15 Heusler alloy thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition. Vishal, B.; Bhat, U.; Sharona, H.; Mukherjee, A.; Roy, S.; Peter, S. C.; Datta, R. J. Crystal Growth, 2020, 546, 125772
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Understanding the Role of Trivalent Cobalt Octahedral in Highly Efficient Nanocrystalline Co3O4 System for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Alex, C.; Sarma, S. C.; Peter, S. C.; John, N. ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2020, 3, 5439–5447
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The design, synthesis and in vivo biological evaluations of [V(IV)O(2,6-pyridine diacetatato) (H2O)2] (PDOV): Featuring its prolonged glucose lowering effect and non-toxic nature. Ramabaran, V.; Saumya, S. M.; Roy, S.; Sonu, K. P.; Eswaramoorthy, M.; Peter, S. C. Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2020, 504, 119448
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Reversing the Activity Centre in Doped Pd17Se15 to Achieve High Stability Towards Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Sarma, S. C.; Kaja, S. M.; Ann Mary, K. A.; Peter, S. C. ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2020, 3, 4051-4056
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"Breaking the O=O bond"- Deciphering the Role of Each Element in Highly Durable CoPd2Se2 towards Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Sarma, S. C.; Mishra, V.; Vemuri, V.; Peter, S. C. ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2020, 3, 231-239