Electrochemical upgrading of biomass-derived 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and furfural over oxygen vacancy-rich NiCoMn-layered double hydroxides nanosheets

Liu, Biying, Xu, Shaojun, Zhang, Man, Li, Xin, Decarolis, Donato, Liu, Yuqian, Wang, Yuchen, Gibson, Emma K., Catlow, C. Richard A. and Yan, Kai 2021. Electrochemical upgrading of biomass-derived 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and furfural over oxygen vacancy-rich NiCoMn-layered double hydroxides nanosheets. Green Chemistry 23 (11) , pp. 4034-4043. 10.1039/D1GC00901J

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Abstract

Rational design of low-cost and active electrocatalysts is crucial for upgrading of biomass-derived chemicals. Here, we report highly efficient catalysts ternary NiCoMn-layered double hydroxides (NiCoMn-LDHs) nanosheets which are oxygen vacancy-rich, produced under controllable conditions for the electrooxidation of both 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) and furfural to furoic acid (FurAc) under mild conditions, respectively. Electrochemical tests showed that the oxidation of HMF and furfural occurred prior to the oxidation of water at lower applied potentials with NiCoMn-LDHs catalysts. High yields of FDCA (91.7%) and FurAc (92.4%) were achieved in 2.5 h using 1.15 nm thick NiCoMn-LDHs nanosheets under the optimal conditions. The mechanism for the superior performance, high durability, and good faradaic efficiency has been elucidated by comprehensive characterization, which confirmed that ultrathin nanosheets expose more Co-NiOOH active sites with oxygen vacancies, facilitating the synergistic effect between HMF and furfural oxidation reaction on Co–Ni and Mn2+ states. The oxygen vacancy-rich NiCoMn-LDHs nanosheet catalysts present a novel and energy-efficient solution to obtain upgraded biochemicals.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Chemistry Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI) Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA)
Publisher:	Royal Society of Chemistry
ISSN:	1463-9262
Funders:	National Natural Science D. W. Knight, D. Bethell and G. J. Hutchings, Catal. Sci. Foundation of China (22078374 and 21776324)
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	21 June 2021
Date of Acceptance:	22 April 2021
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2023 03:54
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/142028

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