Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Facile electron delivery from graphene template to ultrathin metal-organic layers for boosting CO2 photoreduction

  • Jia-Wei Wang,
  • Li-Zhen Qiao,
  • Hao-Dong Nie,
  • Hai-Hua Huang,
  • Yi Li,
  • Shuang Yao,
  • Meng Liu,
  • Zhi-Ming Zhang,
  • Zhen-Hui Kang,
  • Tong-Bu Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21084-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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While solar-to-fuel energy conversion is appealing, materials require accessible active sites for reactants and rapid electron transfer steps. Here, authors support ultrathin metal-organic layers with graphene oxide as both template and electron mediator to boost CO2 photoreduction performance.