Oral Presentation Royal Australian Chemical Institute National Congress 2026

Sustainable technologies focused on carbon dioxide utilization are essential for shifting to new sources of energy supply and mitigating climate change. Among the technologies developed so far, electrochemistry-based approaches—which use electricity from intermittent renewable sources as the energy input—are particularly attractive, as they offer excellent scalability for industrial implementation. This talk highlights recent progress in catalyst and electrolyser design, as well as advances in product scope, achieved by the Electrochemistry Group at Monash University, with a particular focus on improving efficiency, selectivity, and long-term operational stability.^1-3

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