Oxide Defect Engineering Enables to Couple Solar Energy into Oxygen Activation
Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials · University of Science and Technology of China · +1 more institution
Abstract
Modern development of chemical manufacturing requires a substantial reduction in energy consumption and catalyst cost. Sunlight-driven chemical transformation by metal oxides holds great promise for this goal; however, it remains a grand challenge to efficiently couple solar energy into many catalytic reactions. Here we report that defect engineering on oxide catalyst can serve as a versatile approach to bridge light harvesting with surface reactions by ensuring species chemisorption. The chemisorption not only spatially enables the transfer of photoexcited electrons to reaction species, but also alters the form of active species to lower the photon energy requirement for reactions. In a proof of concept,…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 26.30
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 35
Authors
14- NZNing ZhangCorresponding
Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, University of Science and Technology of China, National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
- XLXiyu Li
Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, University of Science and Technology of China, National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
- HYHuacheng Ye
National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, University of Science and Technology of China
- SCShuangming Chen
Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China
- HJHuanxin Ju
Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China
Topics & keywords
- Chemistry
- Catalysis
- Chemisorption
- Photochemistry
- Oxide
- Radical
- Oxygen
- Chemical energy
- Affordable and clean energy
Funding
- NNNational Natural Science Foundation of ChinaAwards: 11574280, U1532135, 11375198, 21471141, U1532112
- MOMinistry of Education of the People's Republic of ChinaAward: WK2060190025
- CAChinese Academy of Sciences
- MOMinistry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of ChinaAward: 2014CB848900
- NSNational Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
- HSHefei Science Center, Chinese Academy of SciencesAward: 2015HSC-UP009