Bioinspired Synthesis of Metal Oxides and Sulphide Electrocatalysts for CO2 and N2 Conversion to Formate and Ammonia

Chowdhury, Anirban2024-07-032024-07-032023ROLL NO.166107007https://gyan.iitg.ac.in/handle/123456789/2668Supervisors: Golder, Animes Kumar and Peela, Nageswara RaoThis doctoral work focuses on the development of environmentally friendly processes for the synthesis of metal oxides and metal sulphide (nano)electrocatalysts. These catalysts are then utilized for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 and N2 to produce value-added chemicals in a semi-batch laboratory electrolyzer.enBioinspired routeTemplate-free synthesisCu2O catalystsSnO2 nanoparticles1D Bi2S3 nanorodspristine Co3O4 nanodiscsCyclic voltammetryLinear sweep voltammetryImpedance spectroscopyChronoamperometryElectrochemical CO2 reductionElectrochemical N2 reductionFormate formationNH3 productionBioinspired Synthesis of Metal Oxides and Sulphide Electrocatalysts for CO2 and N2 Conversion to Formate and AmmoniaThesis