Issue 23, 2020

Recent advances in engineering active sites for photocatalytic CO2 reduction

Abstract

The photocatalytic conversion of green-house gas CO2 into high value-added carbonaceous fuels and chemicals through harvesting solar energy is a great promising strategy for simultaneously tackling global environmental issues and the energy crisis. Considering the vital role of active sites in determining the activity and selectivity in photocatalytic CO2 reduction reactions, great efforts have been directed toward engineering active sites for fabricating efficient photocatalysts. This review highlights recent advances in the strategies for engineering active sites on surfaces and in open frameworks toward photocatalytic CO2 reduction, referring to surface vacancies, doped heteroatoms, functional groups, loaded metal nanoparticles, crystal facets, heterogeneous/homogeneous single-site catalysts and metal nodes/organic linkers in metal organic frameworks.

Graphical abstract: Recent advances in engineering active sites for photocatalytic CO2 reduction

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
01 apr 2020
Accepted
11 may 2020
First published
12 may 2020

Nanoscale, 2020,12, 12196-12209

Recent advances in engineering active sites for photocatalytic CO2 reduction

Y. Bo, C. Gao and Y. Xiong, Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 12196 DOI: 10.1039/D0NR02596H

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