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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"solar fuel production"”.
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Iron Modified Bismuth Titanate Pyrochlore Photocatalysts for Environmental Remediation and Solar Fuel Production
… environmental engineering and sustainable energy production. What is unique about photocatalysis is that it represents a scope that combines traditional catalytic chemical engineering with electrochemical principles and techniques. Traditional catalysis involves the flow, transport, and adherence …
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System and Reactor Design, and Materials Testing, for Efficient Thermochemical Solar Fuel Production in Temperature/Pressure Swing Redox Cycles
Zero emission fuels such as hydrogen and its carriers are essential for decarbonizing hard-to-electrify sectors like industrial process heat, long-distance transportation and seasonal energy storage. Green hydrogen can also decarbonize chemical processes in the fertilizer, petrochemicals and metal …
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Effects of different ligands on the binding of a palladium center in a pyridyl spaced dicarbene
… uphill transformation with implications for solar fuel production. Accordingly, we have developed a suite of compounds consisting of [PDCRPdL]X–, (R= methyl, ethyl, isopropyl, cyclohexyl, 2,6-diisopropylphenyl and mesityl, L= bromide, acetonitrile, pyridine, and t-butylisocyanide, X–= Br–, 2 …
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Enhancing solar fuel synthesis via complementary approaches: round-the-clock operation and heat utilisation
The synthesis of fuels from sunlight offers a promising sustainable solution for chemical energy storage. However, the inefficient utilisation of the solar spectrum limits its commercial viability. Requiring high energy photons to drive the reaction, a large portion of the solar spectrum, …
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Multimodal in-situ spectroscopy of novel enzyme mimics with optofluidic microreactors
… through harnessing the power of the sun for solar fuel production, degrading harmful environmental pollutants and driving the green synthesis of valuable organic products. Despite their significant potential, the current performance of photocatalysts is insufficient for widespread deployment …
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Sustainable photocatalysis using carbon-based materials through interfacial and solvent engineering
… and scalable photocatalytic systems for solar-fuel production has gained significant attention as a pathway toward a sustainable carbon economy. Among the wide range of semiconducting materials investigated, carbon-based nanomaterials have been considered as promising candidates due to …
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Tailored diketopyrrolopyrrole-based organic dyes in photoelectrochemical cells for solar fuel synthesis
The conversion of solar energy to chemical feedstocks in dye-sensitised photoelectrochemical cells functionalised with molecular catalysts offers an attractive route to mitigate the current energy crisis and reduce global CO₂ emissions. However, most reports currently focus on precious metal-based …
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Labile Ligand Variation in Polyazine-Bridged Ruthenium/Rhodium Supramolecular Complexes Providing New Insight into Solar Hydrogen Production from Water
… were prepared for use as photocatalysts for the production of solar H2 fuel from H2O. The electrochemical, photophysical, and photochemical properties upon variation of the monodentate, labile ligands coordinated to the Rh reactive metal center were investigated. Bimetallic complexes …
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Modeling Three Reacting Flow Systems with Modern Computational Fluid Dynamics
… and analysis were used in three projects: solar CO2 conversion modeling, improved coal combustion modeling using STAR-CD, and premixed combustion modeling. Each project is described below. The solar CO2 conversion modeling project involved CFD simulations of a prototype solar CO2 converter …
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Semi-Artificial Photoelectrochemistry through Perovskite Integration and Elucidation of the Local Environment
… active biological catalysts evolved for specific fuel-forming reactions. The biohybrids combine the benefits of both photovoltaic and bioelectrochemical fields to achieve light-driven selective catalysis, with greater efficiency than natural or artificial systems alone. However, at the interface …
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DESIGN OF NOVEL MATERIALS FOR PHOTO-THERMO-CATALYTIC SOLAR FUELS PRODUCTION
… for innovative technologies that can harness solar energy for fuel production. Among various strategies, the generation of solar fuels, such as hydrogen (H2) through water splitting or alcohol reforming, and the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable chemicals, has emerged as a …