Bio-inspired synthetic matrices for efficient electrocatalytic CO2 reduction – MatriCORe

Despite important progresses made over the past few years towards the development of new molecular structures the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2, such catalysts still mostly remains far from potential industrial applications, mainly due to a lack of control of the reactivity and stability of the molecular centre.
MatriCORe will focus on the development of new macromolecular architectures for CO2 reduction, through a bio-inspired approach. The project will consist in integrating, within multifunctional polymer structures, various chemical groups capable of assisting the molecular centre during catalysis, mimicking the peptidic network around an enzyme active site. Integration of these matrices to electrode materials will allow rationalising the impact of each assisting function to the catalysis. This strategy will enable the generation of new molecular assemblies for efficient electrocatalytic CO2 reduction.