Issue 28, 2015

Synthetic strategies to nanostructured photocatalysts for CO2 reduction to solar fuels and chemicals

Abstract

Artificial photosynthesis represents one of the great scientific challenges of the 21st century, offering the possibility of clean energy through water photolysis and renewable chemicals through CO2 utilisation as a sustainable feedstock. Catalysis will undoubtedly play a key role in delivering technologies able to meet these goals, mediating solar energy via excited generate charge carriers to selectively activate molecular bonds under ambient conditions. This review describes recent synthetic approaches adopted to engineer nanostructured photocatalytic materials for efficient light harnessing, charge separation and the photoreduction of CO2 to higher hydrocarbons such as methane, methanol and even olefins.

Graphical abstract: Synthetic strategies to nanostructured photocatalysts for CO2 reduction to solar fuels and chemicals

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
02 3 2015
Accepted
20 5 2015
First published
22 5 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015,3, 14487-14516

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Synthetic strategies to nanostructured photocatalysts for CO2 reduction to solar fuels and chemicals

D. Chen, X. Zhang and A. F. Lee, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, 3, 14487 DOI: 10.1039/C5TA01592H

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