Electrochemical processes are poised to play a critical role in the future energy economy by supporting widespread decarbonization efforts and providing new avenues for sustainable energy use including the electrification of industry. Opportunities exist for the development and integration of novel electrochemical processes that offer carbon-neutral or even carbon-negative synthetic routes to important products by exploiting new reactivities that enable molecular transformations difficult to realize via thermochemical methods. This mini-review highlights these opportunities by first considering the factors that have enabled electrochemical technologies to flourish in certain industrial sectors and then contemplating how those attributes may be leveraged to enable broader adoption. Hydrogen production, carbon dioxide fixation, and organic hydrogenation are discussed as promising electrochemical processes that may find industrial use in the near future.

通过支持广泛的脱碳努力并为包括工业化在内的可持续能源利用提供新途径，电化学工艺有望在未来的能源经济中发挥关键作用。存在开发和整合新的电化学过程的机会，这些新的电化学过程通过利用新的反应性使难于通过热化学方法实现分子转化的新的反应性提供重要产品的碳中性甚至碳负性合成途径。这份小型回顾通过首先考虑使电化学技术在某些工业领域蓬勃发展的因素，然后考虑如何利用这些属性来实现更广泛的应用，突出了这些机会。制氢，二氧化碳固定，