Ambient conversion of natural gas, primary methane (CH4), into commodity chemicals at remote locations with minimal infrastructure support is beneficial both economically and environmentally. The application of distributed renewable electricity offers one route to facilitate such chemical transformation, yet there exists a fundamental challenge of developing electrochemical catalysts towards methane. In this talk, we discuss recent progress in our group on the discovery and mechanistic understanding of electrochemical catalysts for ambient CH4 functionalization. The fundamental understanding of electrocatalysts based on transition metals reveals ample opportunity for the development of advanced electrocatalytic CH4 transformation.

Ambient electrocatalytic CH4 functionalization with transition metal species

ACS Fall 2021

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