Electrochemical hydrogenation of biomass substrates with cation shuttling in a solid electrolyte reactor
Yanjie Zhai, Shanhe Gong, Yunpeng Zuo, Libo Sun, Weisong Li, Yile Yang, Qing Xia, Lele Cui, Yingying Zhou, Jie Wu, Xiao Zhang, Xin Wang · 2026
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Description
Yanjie Zhai and co-authors build a cleaner way in 2026 to add hydrogen to plant-based chemicals using electric power. Adding hydrogen turns raw plant material into useful products, but old setups mix in salts that then need costly removal. Their reactor uses a solid middle layer instead of a liquid salt bath.
As a test, the reactor turned maleic acid into succinic acid, a building block for plastics and food. A shuttle of sodium ions kept side reactions down and recycled the product into a pure form. The system ran for over five hundred hours and gave a final fluid of over ninety-eight percent purity. The team sees a path to greener chemical plants.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yanjie Zhai, Shanhe Gong, Yunpeng Zuo, Libo Sun, Weisong Li, Yile Yang, Qing Xia, Lele Cui, Yingying Zhou, Jie Wu, Xiao Zhang, Xin Wang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |