The Rational Design of a Single‐Component Photocatalyst for Gas‐Phase CO2 Reduction Using Both UV and Visible Light

Advanced Science

Laura B. Hoch²  Thomas E. Wood¹  Paul G. O'Brien²  Kristine Liao²  Laura M. Reyes²  Charles A. Mims¹ 

[1] Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;Materials Chemistry Research Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

关键词: solar fuels;    photocatalysis;    indium oxide nanoparticles;    carbon dioxide;    isotope tracing;   

DOI  :  10.1002/advs.201400013

来源: Wiley

【 摘 要 】

Abstract

The solar-to-chemical energy conversion of greenhouse gas CO₂ into carbon-based fuels is a very important research challenge, with implications for both climate change and energy security. Herein, the key attributes of hydroxides and oxygen vacancies are experimentally identified in non-stoichiometric indium oxide nanoparticles, In₂O_3-x(OH)_y, that function in concert to reduce CO₂ to CO under simulated solar irradiation.

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