Proceedings of MATSUS Spring 2024 Conference (MATSUS24)
Publication date: 18th December 2023
Nowadays, the CO2 electroreduction reaction (CO2RR) is considered an attractive way to convert CO2 into feedstocks and renewable energy vectors [1]. However, such a conversion is limited by two main factors: lack of selectivity to carbon-based products and need of high overpotentials to activate the CO2 molecule. One possible way to overcome such limitations is to use catalysts that promote CO2 reduction and show poor activity towards hydrogen evolution (main by-product) [2].
In this work, we have studied the CO2RR to formate on tin-based catalysts and the effect of the magnesium. The alloy was obtained by thermal annealing using the Mg and Sn metallic powders as a precursor [3]. The catalyst was characterized by X-Ray diffraction and electron microscopy (SEM, TEM and EDX) before and after the electrochemistry (EC). The alloy presents an amorphous morphology and a size change can be observed before and after the EC. We investigated the activity of these material for electrocatalytic CO2RR via Linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) and cycling voltammetry (CV) experiments, in the presence of CO2. We also performed long-term chronoamperometry tests to identify the reaction products, finding a high selectivity towards formate. From electrochemical and analytical data, we were able to determine the most promising phases to carry out this reaction.
nanoGe is a prestigious brand of successful science conferences that are developed along the year in different areas of the world since 2009. Our worldwide conferences cover cutting-edge materials topics like perovskite solar cells, photovoltaics, optoelectronics, solar fuel conversion, surface science, catalysis and two-dimensional materials, among many others.
Previously nanoGe Spring Meeting (NSM) and nanoGe Fall Meeting (NFM), MATSUS is a multiple symposia conference focused on a broad set of topics of advanced materials preparation, their fundamental properties, and their applications, in fields such as renewable energy, photovoltaics, lighting, semiconductor quantum dots, 2-D materials synthesis, charge carriers dynamics, microscopy and spectroscopy semiconductors fundamentals, etc.
International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics
International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV) is celebrated yearly in May. The main topics are the development, function and modeling of materials and devices for hybrid and organic solar cells. The field is now dominated by perovskite solar cells but also other hybrid technologies, as organic solar cells, quantum dot solar cells, and dye-sensitized solar cells and their integration into devices for photoelectrochemical solar fuel production.
Asia-Pacific International Conference on Perovskite, Organic Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics
The main topics of the Asia-Pacific International Conference on Perovskite, Organic Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics (IPEROP) are discussed every year in Asia-Pacific for gathering the recent advances in the fields of material preparation, modeling and fabrication of perovskite and hybrid and organic materials. Photovoltaic devices are analyzed from fundamental physics and materials properties to a broad set of applications. The conference also covers the developments of perovskite optoelectronics, including light-emitting diodes, lasers, optical devices, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical properties, colloidal nanostructures, photophysics and light-matter coupling.
The International Conference on Perovskite Thin Film Photovoltaics Perovskite Photonics and Optoelectronics (NIPHO) is the best place to hear the latest developments in perovskite solar cells as well as on recent advances in the fields of perovskite light-emitting diodes, lasers, optical devices, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical properties, colloidal nanostructures, photophysics and light-matter coupling.