Electrocatalytic carboxylation of halogenated compounds with mesoporous silver electrode materials

Abstract

Mesoporous silver materials are used as electrocatalysts for halogenated compounds. The mesoporous silver materials have uniform mesoporous size (8 nm), large specific surface area (12 m² g⁻¹), high pore volume (0.07 cm³ g⁻¹), and a good 3D network structure of the metallic silver skeleton. The results show that the prepared materials exhibit high performance in electrocatalytic carboxylation of halogenated compounds to acid (78%).