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Sacrificing nothing to reduce CO2

Nature Energy volume 5, pages 642–643 (2020)Cite this article

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Photocatalytic systems for CO2 conversion to fuels tend to suffer from low selectivity, and sacrificial reagents or external bias are often required to make the reaction work. Now, a wireless and stand-alone photocatalyst device is demonstrated that converts CO2 and water into formate and O2 using solar energy without external bias.

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Fig. 1: CotpyP-loaded SrTiO3:La,Rh|Au|RuO2-BiVO4:Mo photocatalyst sheet.

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  1. School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

    Tuo Wang & Jinlong Gong

  2. Key Laboratory for Green Chemical Technology of Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

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  3. Joint School of National University of Singapore and Tianjin University, International Campus of Tianjin University, Binhai New City, Fuzhou, China

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Wang, T., Gong, J. Sacrificing nothing to reduce CO2. Nat Energy 5, 642–643 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-00688-3

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