Researchers propose new method for electrocatalytic hydrogenation of acetylene to ethylene under room temperature

https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/research_news/chem/202112/t20211208_293601.shtml

"Ethylene is one of the most important building blocks in chemical synthesis... highly efficient electrocatalytic hydrogenation of acetylene to ethylene (E-HAE) under room temperature by directly using water as hydrogen source... optimized the Cu catalyst to expose more active facets... By using a microporous gas diffusion layer to promote mass transfer, they achieved a high Faradaic efficiency of 83.2% for ethylene production"

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