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environmental-friendly hydrogen storage? Energy Environ Sci 3:1207–1217
6. Jiang HL, Singh SK, Yan JM, Zhang XB, Xu Q (2010) Liquid-phase chemical hydrogen
storage: catalytic hydrogen generation under ambient conditions. Chemsuschem 3:541–549
7. Yadav M, Xu Q (2012) Liquid-phase chemical hydrogen storage materials. Energy Environ
Sci 5:9698–9725
8. Appel AM, Bercaw JE, Bocarsly AB, Dobbek H, DuBois DL, Dupuis M, Ferry JG, Fujita E,
Hille R, Kenis PJA, Kerfeld CA, Morris RH, Peden CHF, Portis AR, Ragsdale SW,
Rauchfuss TB, Reek JNH, Seefeldt LC, Thauer RK, Waldrop GL (2013) Frontiers,
opportunities, and challenges in biochemical and chemical catalysis of CO 2 fixation. Chem
Rev 113:6621–6658
9. Kuehnel MF, Wakerley DW, Orchard KL, Reisner E (2015) Photocatalytic formic acid
conversion on cds nanocrystals with controllable selectivity for H 2 or CO. Angew Chem
54:9627–9631
10. Wang W, Himeda Y, Muckerman JT, Manbeck G, Fujita E (2015) CO 2 Hydrogenation to
formate and methanol as an alternative to photo—and electrochemical CO 2 reduction. Chem
Rev 115:12936–12973
11. Preuster P, Papp C, Wasserscheid P (2017) Liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs):
toward a hydrogen-free hydrogen economy. Acc Chem Res 50:74–85
12. Sordakis K, Tang CH, Vogt LK, Junge H, Dyson PJ, Beller M, Laurenczy G (2018)
Homogeneous catalysis for sustainable hydrogen storage in formic acid and alcohols. Chem
Rev 118:372–433
13. Zhong H, Iguchi M, Chatterjee M, Himeda Y, Xu Q, Kawanami H (2018) Formic acid-based
liquid organic hydrogen carrier system with heterogeneous catalysts. Adv Sustain Syst
2:1700161
14. Yu X, Pickup PG (2008) Recent advances in direct formic acid fuel cells (DFAFC). J Power
Sources 182:124–132
15. Sahin S, Cai R, Milton RD, Abdellaoui S, Macazo FC, Minteer SD (2018)
Molybdenum-dependent formate dehydrogenase for formate bioelectrocatalysis in a
formate/O 2 enzymatic fuel cell. J Electrochem Soc 165:109–113
16. Yuan M, Sahin S, Cai R, Abdellaoui S, Hickey DP, Minteer SD, Milton RD (2018) Creating
a low-potential redox polymer for efficient electroenzymatic CO 2 reduction. Angew Chem
57:6582–6586
17. EPFL News (2020). https://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-world-s-first-formic-acid-based-fuel-cell/.
Accessed 15 Apr 2020
18. BBC News (2020). https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40403351. Accessed 15 Apr 2020
19. Bar-Even A, Noor E, Flamholz A, Milo R (2013) Design and analysis of metabolic pathways
supporting formatotrophic growth for electricity-dependent cultivation of microbes. Biochim
Biophys Acta 1827:1039–1047
20. Benson EE, Kubiak CP, Sathrum AJ, Smieja JM (2009) Electrocatalytic and homogeneous
approaches to conversion of CO 2 to liquid fuels. Chem Soc Rev 38:89–99
21. DuBois MR, DuBois DL (2009) Development of molecular electrocatalysts for CO 2
reduction and H 2 production/oxidation. Acc Chem Res 42:1974–1982
22. Whipple DT, Kenis PJA (2010) Prospects of CO 2 utilization via direct heterogeneous
electrochemical reduction. J Phys Chem Lett 1:3451–3458
23. Agarwal AS, Zhai Y, Hill D, Sridhar N (2011) The electrochemical reduction of carbon
dioxide to formate/formic acid: engineering and economic feasibility. Chemsuschem
4:1301–1310
24. Schneider J, Jia HF, Muckerman JT, Fujita E (2012) Thermodynamics and kinetics of CO 2 ,
CO, and H + binding to the metal centre of CO 2 reduction catalysts. Chem Soc Rev
41:2036–2051
25. Costentin C, Robert M, Saveant JM (2013) Catalysis of the electrochemical reduction of
carbon dioxide. Chem Soc Rev 42:2423–2436
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