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Area of Science:

  • Electrochemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Sustainable Energy

Background:

  • Direct seawater electrolysis (DSE) offers a sustainable hydrogen production pathway.
  • Challenges include competing chlorine evolution (CER) and hydroxide scaling, necessitating pre-treatment.
  • Existing methods often require costly desalination or pre-alkalization.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a pretreatment-free DSE system for efficient hydrogen production.
  • To mitigate parasitic chlorine evolution and hydroxide precipitation.
  • To establish a practical membrane strategy for direct seawater-to-hydrogen conversion.

Main Methods:

  • Fabrication of a bipolar membrane (BPM) with an ultrathin cation-exchange layer (CEL) and MXene@FeOOH nanosheet interlayer.
  • Implementation of an asymmetric DSE configuration using real seawater.
  • Electrochemical testing at a current density of 100 mA cm⁻².

Main Results:

  • The novel BPM architecture effectively suppressed chloride crossover and mitigated CER.
  • Proton generation at the BPM junction prevented hydroxide scaling (Mg(OH)₂, Ca(OH)₂).
  • Achieved nearly 100% hydrogen Faradaic efficiency for 80 hours with negligible side reactions.

Conclusions:

  • The developed membrane strategy enables efficient, pretreatment-free DSE.
  • This approach offers a practical solution for sustainable hydrogen production directly from seawater.
  • The findings pave the way for scalable seawater electrolysis technologies.