Electrochemical Oxidation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural on Nickel Nitride/Carbon Nanosheets: Reaction Pathway Determined by In Situ Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy
Nana Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
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Yuqin Zou
State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
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State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
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State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
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State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
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State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
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State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
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State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
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Hongzhen Lin
i-LAB, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215123 P. R. China
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Shuangyin Wang
State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorNana Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
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Yuqin Zou
State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorLi Tao
State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorWei Chen
State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorLing Zhou
State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorZhijuan Liu
State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorBo Zhou
State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorGen Huang
State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
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Hongzhen Lin
i-LAB, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215123 P. R. China
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Shuangyin Wang
State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 P. R. China
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To sum up: A carbon-coupled nickel nitride nanosheet was employed as an efficient electrocatalyst for 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) oxidation. In situ sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy was used to explore the HMF electrooxidation process, and confirmed that the oxidation pathway proceeds via 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furancarboxylic acid (HMFCA).
Abstract
2,5-Furandicarboxylic acid was obtained from the electrooxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) with non-noble metal-based catalysts. Moreover, combining the biomass oxidation with the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) increased the energy conversion efficiency of an electrolyzer and also generated value-added products at both electrodes. Here, the reaction pathway on the surface of a carbon-coupled nickel nitride nanosheet (Ni3N@C) electrode was evaluated by surface-selective vibrational spectroscopy using sum frequency generation (SFG) during the electrochemical oxidation. The Ni3N@C electrode shows catalytic activities for HMF oxidation and the HER. As the first in situ SFG study on transition-metal nitride for the electrooxidation upgrade of HMF, this work not only demonstrates that the reaction pathway of electrochemical oxidation but also provides an opportunity for nonprecious metal nitrides to simultaneously upgrade biomass and produce H2 under ambient conditions.
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