@article{Begildayeva2024, 
author = {Talshyn Begildayeva and Jayaraman Theerthagiri and Seung Jun Lee and Ahreum Min and Gyeong-Ah Kim and Sivakumar Manickam and Myong Yong Choi},
title = {Sustainable Furfural Biomass Feedstocks Electrooxidation toward Value-Added Furoic Acid with Energy-Saving H2 Fuel Production Using Pt-Decorated Co3O4 Nanospheres},
year = {2024},
journal = {Energy & Environmental Materials},
volume = {7},
number = {2},
pages = {e12563},
keywords = {biomass conversion, electrochemical furfural oxidation, overall water splitting, Pt-Co3O4 electrocatalyst, pulsed laser ablation in liquid},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1002/eem2.12563},
doi = {10.1002/eem2.12563},
abstract = {Here, furfural oxidation was performed to replace the kinetically sluggish O2 evolution reaction (OER). Pt-Co3O4 nanospheres were developed via pulsed laser ablation in liquid (PLAL) in a single step for the paired electrocatalysis of an H2 evolution reaction (HER) and furfural oxidation reaction (FOR). The FOR afforded a high furfural conversion (44.2%) with a major product of 2-furoic acid after a 2-h electrolysis at 1.55 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode in a 1.0-M KOH/50-mM furfural electrolyte. The Pt-Co3O4 electrode exhibited a small overpotential of 290 mV at 10 mA cm−2. As an anode and cathode in an electrolyzer system, the Pt-Co3O4 electrocatalyst required only a small applied cell voltage of ~1.83 V to deliver 10 mA cm−2, compared with that of the pure water electrolyzer (OER||HER, ~1.99 V). This study simultaneously realized the integrated production of energy-saving H2 fuel at the cathode and 2-furoic acid at the anode.}
}