New paper: Antimony Enhances Durability of CO₂ Reduction Electrodes

May 1, 2025·
Eran Edri
Eran Edri
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Our new paper in Small Structures reports that antimony incorporation into bismuth-based gas diffusion electrodes enhances durability under sustained CO₂ electroreduction conditions. Led by Yakov Shitrit and Tomer Karmel, in collaboration with Maytal Caspary Toroker’s group at the Technion.

Citation: Shitrit, Y.; Karmel, T.; Pachmanov Dvir, S.; Rubinstein, A. A.; Arazi, Z.; Maman, N.; Caspary Toroker, M.; Udachyan, I.; Cohen, Y. S.; Edri, E. The Dual Role of Antimony in Enhancing the Durability of Bismuth-Based CO₂ Reduction Gas Diffusion Electrodes. Small Struct. 2026, 7 (1), e202500505. https://doi.org/10.1002/sstr.202500505

Eran Edri
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Associate Professor & Research Group Director
Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Our research focuses on the science and engineering of thin-film semiconductor materials and interfaces for solar energy conversion, photoelectrochemistry, and electrochemical CO₂ reduction. We investigate defect chemistry, self-healing phenomena, and light–matter interactions in emerging photovoltaic materials toward practical carbon-capture and clean-energy technologies.