Description

Research grade hardware needed to build your own Carbon Dioxide Electrolyzer.  Water and carbon dioxide electrolyzers are poised for wide scale deployment as a way of storing renewable energy and as a way of mitigating climate change.

The Dioxide Materials’ development of an alkaline stable Sustainion^® membrane enabled the development of zero-gap design CO₂ electrolyzers that can improve current density by two orders of magnitude at the same or lower cell voltage as compared to the current diaphragm-based alkaline water electrolyzers.

Dioxide Materials sells individual components so you can build your own CO₂ electrolyzers.  Or, you can also order fully assembled “plug and play” CO₂ electrolyzers that are shipped in less than 5 business days. The choice is yours.

The development of the Dioxide Materials’ CO₂ electrolyzer technology in efficiently producing CO at high selectivities is based on four technological developments. These are:

• Development of a GDE cathode structure comprising an imidazole-based ionomer as a co-catalyst with nanoparticle Ag, reducing the potential at the cathode for the CO₂ reduction reaction
• Development of a high conductivity and alkaline stable anion membrane (Sustainion^® membrane) that can conduct OH^– and bicarbonate/carbonate ions and imidazole-based ionomer
• Development and utilization of the Sustainion^® imidazole ionomer, that when incorporated with the selected catalyst in the cathode GDE construction, reduces the cathode reaction potential in CO₂ reduction
• Development of a GDE anode structure comprising a nanoparticle IrO₂ catalyst

These developments have helped create an electrochemical CO₂ technology that can operate at high current densities, high CO selectivity, and low cell potentials.