Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

Photocatalysis

Separating fiction from fact for photocatalytic CO2 reduction

Nature Chemistry volume 15, pages 1209–1211 (2023)Cite this article

Subjects

Although light-driven conversion of carbon dioxide receives widespread attention, it is also criticized due to the challenge of discerning true product formation from that of impurities. Now, significantly advanced guidelines for proper product identification have been developed, so we can better trust in what we see.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Fig. 1: Visualization of the necessity for product separation during isotope-labelling experiments in photocatalytic CO2 reduction.

References

  1. Halmann, M. Nature 275, 115–116 (1978).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Inoue, T. et al. Nature 277, 637–638 (1979).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Yang, C.-C., Yu, Y.-H., van der Linden, B., Wu, J. C. S. & Mul, G. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132, 8398–8406 (2010).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Mei, B., Pougin, A. & Strunk, J. J. Catal. 306, 184–189 (2013).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Cybula, A., Klein, M. & Zaleska, A. Appl. Catal. B: Environ. 164, 433–442 (2015).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Chanmanee, W., Islam, M. F., Dennis, B. H. & MacDonnell, F. M. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 115, E557 (2018).

    Google Scholar 

  7. Grigioni, I., Dozzi, M. V., Bernareggi, M., Chiarello, G. L. & Selli, E. Catal. Today 281, 214–220 (2017).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Moustakas, N. G. & Strunk, J. Chem. Eur. J. 24, 12739–12746 (2018).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  9. Dilla, M., Jakubowski, A., Ristig, S., Strunk, J. & Schlögl, R. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21, 15949–15957 (2019).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  10. Wang, S. et al. Nat. Commun. 14, 2534 (2023).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  11. Li, Y. & Qi, F. Acc. Chem. Res. 43, 68–78 (2010).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  12. Anderson, S. Z. et al. Nature 570, 504–508 (2019).

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Industrial Chemistry and Heterogeneous Catalysis, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Jennifer Strunk

Authors
  1. Jennifer Strunk
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Jennifer Strunk.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The author declares no competing interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Strunk, J. Separating fiction from fact for photocatalytic CO2 reduction. Nat. Chem. 15, 1209–1211 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-023-01293-z

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-023-01293-z

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing