Artificial Photosynthesis for Hydrogen Generation and Carbon Dioxide Reduction
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Photocatalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 3562
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As you may know, the solar energy that is received by the earth is about 3.85 106 EJ annually, which is way more than the energy we consume globally per year, while only 0.078% of the total amount of solar energy is used in photosynthesis to generate valuable chemicals indispensable to human beings. Actively utilizing solar energy to produce fuels such as hydrogen, methanol, ethanol, etc. is expected to largely reduce the dependence of human society on fossil fuels and might thus be helpful in cutting carbon emissions and realize sustainability. Artificial photosynthesis that combines materials science, photocatalysis, and photoelectrochemistry to mimic natural photosynthesis has been regarded as one feasible strategy in harvesting solar fuels, whereas the efficiency of solar-to-fuel is still too low due to many limitations, such as low intrinsic activity and selectivity of photocatalysts, easiness of electron-hole recombination, inferior photostability of photoelectrodes, etc. Tremendous efforts are still required to address these limitations.
In this scenario, I cordially invite you to contribute your original research work and review articles to this Special Issue titled “Artificial Photosynthesis for Hydrogen Generation and Carbon Dioxide Reduction”. Specifically, manuscripts with topics on efficient hydrogen generation or carbon dioxide reduction realized through photocatalysis or photoelectrochemistry are very welcomed. Some research articles on electrocatalysis that can achieve the same goals of fuels generation can also be considered, as electrocatalysis is promising to be coupled with photovoltaics in the future for solar-to-fuel conversion.
Dr. Tianyi Kou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Artificial photosynthesis
- Solar energy
- Photocatalysts
- Photoelectrodes
- Electrocatalysts
- Hydrogen generation
- Carbon dioxide reduction
