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            <journal-title>Journal of the American Chemical Society</journal-title>
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            <article-title>Electrochemical
CO<sub>2</sub> Capture by a Quinone-Based
Covalent Organic Framework</article-title>
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                  <surname>Enninful</surname>
                  <given-names>Henry R. N. B.</given-names>
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               <name name-style="western">
                  <surname>Ali</surname>
                  <given-names>Naveed Zafar</given-names>
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               <name name-style="western">
                  <surname>Cao</surname>
                  <given-names>Sijia</given-names>
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               <name name-style="western">
                  <surname>Lu</surname>
                  <given-names>Yan</given-names>
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                  <surname>Wei</surname>
                  <given-names>Zhixiang</given-names>
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                  <given-names>Martin</given-names>
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               <name name-style="western">
                  <surname>Milner</surname>
                  <given-names>Phillip J.</given-names>
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            <aff id="aff1">
               <label>†</label>
               <institution content-type="dept" xlink:type="simple">Yusuf
Hamied Department of Chemistry</institution>, <institution-wrap>
                  <institution-id institution-id-type="Ringgold" specific-use="source:pplus">2152</institution-id>
                  <institution xlink:type="simple">University
of Cambridge</institution>
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               <postal-code>CB2 1EW</postal-code>, <country country="GB">U.K.</country>
            </aff>
            <aff id="aff2">
               <label>‡</label>
               <institution content-type="dept" xlink:type="simple">Renewable
Energy Advancement Laboratory, Department of Environmental Sciences</institution>, <institution-wrap>
                  <institution-id institution-id-type="Ringgold" specific-use="source:pplus">66757</institution-id>
                  <institution xlink:type="simple">Quaid-i-Azam University</institution>
               </institution-wrap>, <city>Islamabad</city>
               <postal-code>45320</postal-code>, <country country="PK">Pakistan</country>
            </aff>
            <aff id="aff3">
               <label>§</label>
               <institution content-type="dept" xlink:type="simple">CAS
Key Laboratory of Nanosystems and Hierarchical Fabrication, National
Center for Nanoscience and Technology</institution>, <institution xlink:type="simple">Chinese
Academy of Sciences</institution>, <city>Beijing</city>
               <postal-code>100190</postal-code>, <country country="CN">P. R. China</country>
            </aff>
            <aff id="aff4">
               <label>∥</label>
               <institution content-type="dept" xlink:type="simple">Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology</institution>, <institution xlink:type="simple">Cornell
University</institution>, <city>Ithaca</city>, <state>New York</state>
               <postal-code>14850</postal-code>, <country country="US">United States</country>
            </aff>
            <aff id="aff5">
               <label>⊥</label>
               <institution content-type="dept" xlink:type="simple">Felix
Bloch Institute for Solid State Physics, Faculty of Physics and Earth
Sciences</institution>, <institution xlink:type="simple">Leipzig University</institution>, <addr-line>Linnéstraße</addr-line>, <postal-code>504103</postal-code>
               <city>Leipzig</city>, <country country="DE">Germany</country>
            </aff>
            <aff id="aff6">
               <label>#</label>
               <institution content-type="dept" xlink:type="simple">National
Centre for Physics</institution>, <institution xlink:type="simple">Quaid-i-Azam University</institution>, <city>Islamabad</city>
               <postal-code>44000</postal-code>, <country country="PK">Pakistan</country>
            </aff>
            <aff id="aff7">
               <label>∇</label>
               <institution content-type="dept" xlink:type="simple">Institute
for Technical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry</institution>, <institution-wrap>
                  <institution-id institution-id-type="Ringgold" specific-use="source:pplus">9378</institution-id>
                  <institution xlink:type="simple">Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena</institution>
               </institution-wrap>, <addr-line>Philosophenweg 7a</addr-line>, <postal-code>07743</postal-code>
               <city>Jena</city>, <country country="DE">Germany</country>
            </aff>
            <aff id="aff8">
               <label>○</label>
               <institution xlink:type="simple">Helmholtz
Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications Jena</institution>, <addr-line>Lessingstraße 12-14</addr-line>, <postal-code>07743</postal-code>
               <city>Jena</city>, <country country="DE">Germany</country>
            </aff>
            <aff id="aff9">
               <label>◆</label>
               <institution-wrap>
                  <institution-id institution-id-type="Ringgold" specific-use="source:pplus">28340</institution-id>
                  <institution xlink:type="simple">Institute
of Electro chemical Energy Storage, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für
Materialien und Energie</institution>
               </institution-wrap>, <addr-line>Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1</addr-line>, <postal-code>14109</postal-code>
               <city>Berlin</city>, <country country="DE">Germany</country>
            </aff>
            <aff id="aff10">
               <label>¶</label>
               <institution content-type="dept" xlink:type="simple">Department
of Materials and Henry Royce Institute</institution>, <institution xlink:type="simple">University of Manchester</institution>, <city>Manchester</city>
               <postal-code>M13 9PL</postal-code>, <country country="GB">U.K.</country>
            </aff>
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         <author-notes>
            <corresp id="cor1">
               <label>*</label>Email: <email xlink:type="simple">makhan@qau.edu.pk</email>.</corresp>
            <corresp id="cor2">
               <label>*</label>Email: <email xlink:type="simple">acf50@cam.ac.uk</email>.</corresp>
         </author-notes>
         <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic">
            <day>09</day>
            <month>12</month>
            <year>2025</year>
         </pub-date>
         <pub-date date-type="issue-pub">
            <day>24</day>
            <month>12</month>
            <year>2025</year>
         </pub-date>
         <volume>147</volume>
         <issue>51</issue>
         <fpage>47036</fpage>
         <lpage>47043</lpage>
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            <date date-type="received">
               <day>18</day>
               <month>07</month>
               <year>2025</year>
            </date>
            <date date-type="accepted">
               <day>23</day>
               <month>11</month>
               <year>2025</year>
            </date>
            <date date-type="rev-recd">
               <day>15</day>
               <month>11</month>
               <year>2025</year>
            </date>
            <date date-type="asap">
               <day>09</day>
               <month>12</month>
               <year>2025</year>
            </date>
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            <copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
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         <abstract>
            <p>Electrochemical CO<sub>2</sub> capture is an emerging technology
that promises to be more energy-efficient than traditional thermal
or pressure-swing processes. Herein, the first evidence of electrochemical
capture of CO<sub>2</sub> using a covalent organic framework (COF)
is presented. We hypothesized that the assembly of anthraquinone units
into a well-defined porous framework electrode would lead to enhanced
electrochemical CO<sub>2</sub> capture compared to previous approaches
that grafted anthraquinones on carbon supports and suffered from low
CO<sub>2</sub> capacities and stabilities. To test this, an anthraquinone-based
COF is employed, and it is found that the quinones are electrochemically
accessible for reversible CO<sub>2</sub> capture in an ionic liquid
electrolyte. The system achieves a high electrochemical CO<sub>2</sub> uptake capacity &gt;2.6 mmol g<sup>–1</sup> COF, reaching
half
of the theoretical CO<sub>2</sub> capacity of the material and surpassing
the capacities of anthraquinone-functionalized carbons. The stability
and CO<sub>2</sub> uptake rate issues encountered with the ionic liquid
system are also addressed by using aqueous electrolytes where we attained
stable carbon capture for 500 cycles with a 99.6% Coulombic efficiency
and an electrical energy consumption of 31 kJ mol<sub>CO<sub>2</sub>
               </sub>
               <sup>–1</sup>. The use of covalent organic framework
electrodes can become a general strategy for understanding and enhancing
the electrochemical CO<sub>2</sub> capture.</p>
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