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Which electrode is better for biomass valorization: Cu(OH)2 or CuO nanowire?

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2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), one of the key building block for replacing petroleum-derived tereph-thalic acid, is utilized as the source of bioplastics, pharmaceuticals. Herein, free-standing Cu(OH)2 and CuO nanowires as electrode were examined to disclose the effects of crystal structure and chemical formation based on copper oxide in electrocatalytic 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) oxidation to FDCA in 0.1 M KOH solution. We introduced on three-dimensional copper foam (CuF) with high porosity as copper source and substrate with high conductivity free-standing Cu(OH)2 and CuO nanowires (NWs) on the substrate by inorganic polymerization and calcination for electrochemical HMF oxidation. This was enabled by square-planar coordination (σx2-y2) of Cu2+ ions in (001) crystal faces of Cu(OH)2 crystal. As a result of stacking with hydrogen bonds, free-standing Cu(OH)2 NWs on the substrate was formed. There was no change in the morphology of the nanowire arrays, but the active sites from a plane area per surface-exposed Cu atoms by transformation of Cu(OH)2 to CuO NWs increased.

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This work was supported by Basic Science Research Program (NRF-2019R1C1C1004210) through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Kore a Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KR ICT) core project (SI1941-20).

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  1. Bio-based Chemistry Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Ulsan, 44429, Korea

    Hoang Minh Pham, Myung Jong Kang, Kyung-An Kim, Sung Yeon Hwang & Hyun Gil Cha

  2. Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering, University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon, 34113, Korea

    Hoang Minh Pham & Sung Yeon Hwang

  3. Department of Materials & Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, 15588, Korea

    Chang Gyu Im

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Pham, H.M., Kang, M.J., Kim, KA. et al. Which electrode is better for biomass valorization: Cu(OH)2 or CuO nanowire?. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 37, 556–562 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-020-0474-9

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