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2023
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http://hdl.handle.net/2128/34329 in citations.
Please use the identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2212075120 in citations.
Ultrabroadband plasmon driving selective photoreforming of methanol under ambient conditions
Ultrabroadband plasmon driving selective photoreforming of methanol under ambient conditions
Photoreforming of methanol has been envisioned as a promising pathway to produce H2 fuel which gained interest over the years. However, the formation of CO2/CO byproducts from this pathway has seen as a major hurdle to its practical realization because the evolution of CO2 and/or CO gases will negat...
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Personal Name(s): | Uddin, Nasir |
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Sun, Zhehao / Langley, Julien / Lu, Haijao / Cao, Pengfei (Corresponding author) / Wibowo, Ary / Yin, Xinmao / Tang, Chi Sin / Nguyen, Hieu T. / Evans, Jack D. / Li, Xinzhe / Zhang, Xiaoliang / Heggen, Marc / Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal E. / Wee, Andrew T. S. / Zhao, Haitao / Cox, Nicholas / Yin, Zongyou | |
Contributing Institute: |
Physik Nanoskaliger Systeme; ER-C-1 |
Published in: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120 (2023) 3, S. e2212075120 |
Imprint: |
Washington, DC
National Acad. of Sciences
2023
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DOI: |
10.1073/pnas.2212075120 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Understanding the Structural and Functional Behavior of Solid State Systems Platform for Correlative, In Situ and Operando Characterization |
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OpenAccess OpenAccess |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
Please use the identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2212075120 in citations.
Photoreforming of methanol has been envisioned as a promising pathway to produce H2 fuel which gained interest over the years. However, the formation of CO2/CO byproducts from this pathway has seen as a major hurdle to its practical realization because the evolution of CO2 and/or CO gases will negatively contribute toward the global-warming and/or environmental issues. To resolve these issues, herein, we discovered solar-driven ultrabroadband plasmonic photoreforming of pure methanol to pure, green and self-separable H2 energy production with zero-emission from an all-plasmonic Cu–WC/W catalytic system. The local electric field, lattice misfit strain, and the monodirectional flow of charge carriers by optical dielectric gradient work in synergy to enable the superior plasmonic photocatalysis in this all-plasmonic system. |