Nature Communications (May 2021)

Metal-organic framework membranes with single-atomic centers for photocatalytic CO2 and O2 reduction

  • Yu-Chen Hao,
  • Li-Wei Chen,
  • Jiani Li,
  • Yu Guo,
  • Xin Su,
  • Miao Shu,
  • Qinghua Zhang,
  • Wen-Yan Gao,
  • Siwu Li,
  • Zi-Long Yu,
  • Lin Gu,
  • Xiao Feng,
  • An-Xiang Yin,
  • Rui Si,
  • Ya-Wen Zhang,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Chun-Hua Yan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22991-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Photoreduction of permanent gas faces challenges in reactant diffusion and activation at the three-phase interface. Here the authors showed porous metal-organic framework membranes decorated by metal single atoms can boost the photoreduction of CO2 and O2 at the high-throughput gas-solid interface.