(544es) Quasi-2D Pd/Pt Nanoclams for CO2 Reduction in Tandem with Microbial Communities

Improving the performance of cathodes for the electrochemical CO₂ reduction reaction (CO₂RR) will benefit from the discovery of new materials as well as the introduction of new paradigms such as the pairing of electrochemical CO₂ reduction with microbial communities. This work focuses on the synthesis and CO₂ reduction activity of a novel quasi-2D Pd/Pt bimetallic ‘nanoclam’ catalyst synthesized on carbon cloth electrodes as well as the integration of these novel nanostructured cathodes with microbial communities. The integration of microbial communities with these nanostructured Pd/Pt catalysts has the potential to combine the best-of-both-worlds from electrochemical and biological systems to achieve a regenerative catalytic system with high-selectivity, high activity, and low overpotential.