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Don’t cross the streams

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Low-temperature CO2 electrolysis is increasingly attractive for the production of sustainable electrofuels and electrochemicals as intensified research keeps pushing performance higher. Recent efforts on system engineering now offer solutions to downstream purification challenges, taking this technology one step closer to maturity.

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Fig. 1: Traditional membrane-electrode-assembly-based CO2 electrolyser versus the architecture with a central porous polymer electrolyte used to quench carbonate cross-over.

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Correspondence to Sarah Lamaison or David Wakerley.

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D.W. and S.L. are co-founders and employees of Dioxycle, which develops low-temperature CO2 electrolysers.

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Lamaison, S., Wakerley, D. Don’t cross the streams. Nat Catal 5, 242–243 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-022-00774-7

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