Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Ballroom 6ABC (Washington State Convention Center)
The rise in global carbon dioxide emissions poses a grave danger to our society as a whole. The ability to mitigate these harmful emissions would prove invaluable. Electrocatalytic conversion of CO2 provides us a viable pathway for reducing and mitigating emissions. Pyridine moieties have have been to be highly effective at CO2 conversion. By taking advantage of the microphase separation phenomenon with block copolymers, we synthesize nanoporous polystyrene-polyvinylpyridine thin films. We present preliminary results of CO2 conversion within these nanoscale confined reaction vessels.