Journal article
Improved copper-based catalysts for alcohol-assisted CO2 hydrogenation: A comparative study between novel nano-stabilized and deposition-precipitation method
L Ye, P Xiao, P Scales, P Webley, R Singh, GK Li
Molecular Catalysis | Elsevier | Published : 2023
Abstract
A growing awareness of the need to control CO2 concentration in atmosphere spurs the demand for novel technologies to convert CO2 to useful chemicals. The conversion of CO2 into high-quality liquid fuel such as methanol is a primary focus, and using active catalysts is the key to achieving successful methanol synthesis from CO2 hydrogenation under mild conditions. A new way of synthesizing catalysts with highly dispersed nano copper particles, as well as the characteristics of the catalysts are reported in this study. This is the first instance of methanol catalysts being prepared using a combination of copolymer of polyethylene glycol and maleic acid (PEG-MA) as a stabilizer and layered hyd..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors declare the following financial interests/personal re- lationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Gang Li reports financial support was provided by Australian Research Council. The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the China Scholarship Council (No.201706080002) . This work was per- formed in part at the Materials Characterisation and Fabrication Plat- form (MCFP) at the University of Melbourne and the Victorian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) . The authors would like to acknowledge the sponsor from Australia Research Council DP190101336. PJS acknowledges support of the Australian Research Council through the ARC Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals, grant number CE200100009.