Issue 7, 2017
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Energy & Environmental Science

Efficient catalytic greenhouse gas-free hydrogen and aldehyde formation from aqueous alcohol solutions†

Tracy L. Lohr, ORCID logo ‡a   Aidan R. Mouat,‡a   Neil M. Schweitzer,b   Peter C. Stair,*ac   Massimiliano Delferro ORCID logo §*a  and  Tobin J. Marks ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
E-mail: pstair@northwestern.edu, t-marks@northwestern.edu

b Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA

c Chemical Sciences & Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA

Abstract

Hydrogen is an ideal fuel candidate due to its clean combustion characteristics. Here we report an inexpensive and sustainable Mo-based, carbon-supported catalyst that generates H2 and the corresponding aldehyde from aqueous methanol or ethanol at high rates with negligible greenhouse gas co-production. The aldehyde coproducts lend value to this process without producing CO2.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6EE03739A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
23 Dec 2016
Accepted
27 Mar 2017
First published
28 Mar 2017

Energy Environ. Sci., 2017,10, 1558-1562

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Efficient catalytic greenhouse gas-free hydrogen and aldehyde formation from aqueous alcohol solutions

T. L. Lohr, A. R. Mouat, N. M. Schweitzer, P. C. Stair, M. Delferro and T. J. Marks, Energy Environ. Sci., 2017, 10, 1558 DOI: 10.1039/C6EE03739A

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