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Cover Picture: Self‐Sustainable Production of Hydrogen, Chemicals, and Energy from Renewable Alcohols by Electrocatalysis (ChemSusChem 7/2010)
Author(s) -
Bambagioni Valentina,
Bevilacqua Manuela,
Bianchini Claudio,
Filippi Jonathan,
Lavacchi Alessandro,
Marchionni Andrea,
Vizza Francesco,
Shen Pei Kang
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
chemsuschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.412
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1864-564X
pISSN - 1864-5631
DOI - 10.1002/cssc.201090026
Subject(s) - art , chemistry , humanities , art history
The conversion of biomasses from agriculture into either hydrogen or chemicals is a target of primary importance for sustainable development. In their Full Paper on page 851 , Claudio Bianchini and co‐workers report a method to produce both hydrogen and chemicals in a single process making use of electricity provided by renewable energy sources. The cover image shows an effectively assembled self‐sustainable hydrogen fuel cell; hydrogen is produced by the electrolysis of aqueous solutions of alcohols. The realization of such a process will provide ultrapure hydrogen and, at the same time, lead to the sustainable production of industrially relevant feedstocks from biomasses.