In recent times there has been a great deal of interest in the conversion of carbon dioxide into more useful chemical compounds. On the other hand, the translation of these developments in electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide from the laboratory bench to practical scale remains an underexplored topic. Here we examine some of the major challenges, demonstrating some promising strategies towards such scale-up, including increased electrode area and stacking of electrode pairs in different configurations. We observed that increasing the electrode area from 1 to 10 cm² led to only a 4% drop in current density, with similarly small penalties realised when stacking sub-cells together.

最近，人们对将二氧化碳转化为更有用的化合物产生了极大的兴趣。另一方面，将这些在电化学还原二氧化碳方面的进展从实验室工作台转化为实际规模仍然是一个未充分探索的话题。在这里，我们研究了一些主要挑战，展示了一些有希望的扩大规模的策略，包括增加电极面积和堆叠不同配置的电极对。我们观察到，将电极面积从 1 cm 2 增加到 10 cm ²只会导致电流密度下降 4%，而将子电池堆叠在一起时也会出现类似的小损失。