{"id":206666,"date":"2025-02-18T09:04:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/copper-based-electrocatalysts-using-corrosion-for-efficient-biomass-upgrading"},"modified":"2025-02-18T09:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:04:52","slug":"copper-based-electrocatalysts-using-corrosion-for-efficient-biomass-upgrading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/copper-based-electrocatalysts-using-corrosion-for-efficient-biomass-upgrading","title":{"rendered":"Copper-Based Electrocatalysts: Using Corrosion for Efficient Biomass Upgrading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/copper-based-electrocatalysts-using-corrosion-for-efficient-biomass-upgrading.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers at NIMTE have turned metal corrosion into a tool for efficient biomass upgrading, achieving high HMF-to-BHMF conversion rates with a CoCuMW\/CF electrode. Their findings offer a low-cost, sustainable solution for bio-based chemical production.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Prof. Jian Zhang from the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/chinese-academy-of-sciences\/\">Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)<\/a> has harnessed metal corrosion to develop high-performance electrodes, facilitating the efficient and cost-effective upgrading of bio-based 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). Their findings were published in <em><i>Chem Catalysis<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While corrosion is typically associated with material degradation and economic loss, researchers are now investigating its potential for advantageous applications, particularly in biomass upgrading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at NIMTE have turned metal corrosion into a tool for efficient biomass upgrading, achieving high HMF-to-BHMF conversion rates with a CoCuMW\/CF electrode. Their findings offer a low-cost, sustainable solution for bio-based chemical production. A research team led by Prof. Jian Zhang from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,39,38,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-economics","category-engineering","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}