Ionic Liquids and Deep Eutectic Solvents for CO Conversion Technologies-A Review

Overview

Journal Materials (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Date 2021 Aug 27

PMID 34443042

Citations 4

Authors

Kranthi Kumar Maniam

Shiladitya Paul

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Abstract

Ionic liquids (ILs) have a wide range of potential uses in renewable energy, including CO capture and electrochemical conversion. With the goal of providing a critical overview of the progression, new challenges, and prospects of ILs for evolving green renewable energy processes, this review emphasizes the significance of ILs as electrolytes and reaction media in two primary areas of interest: CO electroreduction and organic molecule electrosynthesis via CO transformation. Herein, we briefly summarize the most recent advances in the field, as well as approaches based on the electrochemical conversion of CO to industrially important compounds employing ILs as an electrolyte and/or reaction media. In addition, the review also discusses the advances made possible by deep eutectic solvents (DESs) in CO electroreduction to CO. Finally, the critical techno-commercial issues connected with employing ILs and DESs as an electrolyte or ILs as reaction media are reviewed, along with a future perspective on the path to rapid industrialization.

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