Towards Artificial Photosynthesis: Sustainable Hydrogen Utilization for Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to High-Value Renewable Fuels
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Photocatalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2023) | Viewed by 5180
Special Issue Editors
Interests: CO2 hydrogenation; high-value chemical; photocatalyst; reactor design
Interests: smart city utilizing renewable energy; electro-chemical energy processes; heat and mass transfer processes; renewable energy based electrolytic hydrogen production; fuel cell technologies; smart city orientation for wind and solar energy applications; photocatalytic CO2 reduction
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Dear Colleagues,
Solar-driven CO2 reduction into high-value fuels has emerged as a hot-spot research topic in an attempt to deal with the environmental crisis over the past few decades. Hitherto, various pathways have been developed to promote CO2 reduction. However, the performance of current catalysts has still been low due to the utilized material and reactor. Utilization of sustainable hydrogen has turned out to be a promising approach to boost CO2 reduction in terms of solar conversion efficiency and selectivity. Thus, the generation of high-value chemicals produced in CO2 reduction reaction is feasible with the assistance of hydrogen. Therefore, this approach offers great opportunities for the generation of high-value chemicals from CO2. In this context, the exploration of robust materials and proper catalytic reactors has been considered the key component to address those aforementioned restrictions.
This Special Issue aims at providing novel approaches toward photocatalytic CO2 reduction associated with sustainable hydrogen. This issue will cover state-of-the-art development of material-, reactor-, and theoretical-related investigations in the field the solar-driven hydrogenation of CO2.
Dr. Chinh Chien NguyenDr. Akira Nishimura
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- CO2 hydrogenation
- high-value chemical
- photocatalyst
- reactor design
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