What does photosynthesis have to do with cars and airplanes?
In this episode, I feature a paper by Wu and colleagues who describe the principles and development of Artificial Leaf technology that aims to mimic plants to convert greenhouse gases into useful fuel for human use. Achieving this goal will constitute a groundbreaking success in combating climate change.
Full citation:
Wu YA, McNulty I, Liu C, Lau KC, Liu Q, Paulikas AP, Sun CJ, Cai Z, Guest JR, Ren Y, Stamenkovic V. Facet-dependent active sites of a single Cu 2 O particle photocatalyst for CO 2 reduction to methanol. Nature Energy. 2019 Nov;4(11):957-68.
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