Large-scale deployment of electrocatalytic hydrogenations using water as a hydrogen source is hampered by poor solubility and difficult product separation. Here the authors propose a dual hydrogenation approach, with palladium membranes used as both anode and cathode, to produce hydrogen—enabled at the anode by the low-potential oxidation of formaldehyde—that permeates to adjacent chemical compartments, where the hydrogenation of organic substrates occur.
- Guanqun Han
- Guodong Li
- Yujie Sun
