Nature Communications (Feb 2023)
Room-temperature photosynthesis of propane from CO2 with Cu single atoms on vacancy-rich TiO2
- Yan Shen,
- Chunjin Ren,
- Lirong Zheng,
- Xiaoyong Xu,
- Ran Long,
- Wenqing Zhang,
- Yong Yang,
- Yongcai Zhang,
- Yingfang Yao,
- Haoqiang Chi,
- Jinlan Wang,
- Qing Shen,
- Yujie Xiong,
- Zhigang Zou,
- Yong Zhou
Affiliations
- Yan Shen
- Key Laboratory of Modern Acoustics (MOE), Institute of Acoustics, School of Physics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Nanotechnology, Eco-materials and Renewable Energy Research Center (ERERC), National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
- Chunjin Ren
- School of Physics, Southeast University
- Lirong Zheng
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xiaoyong Xu
- Chemistry Interdisciplinary Research Center, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University
- Ran Long
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China
- Wenqing Zhang
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China
- Yong Yang
- Key Laboratory of Soft Chemistry and Functional Materials (MOE), Nanjing University of Science and Technology
- Yongcai Zhang
- Chemistry Interdisciplinary Research Center, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University
- Yingfang Yao
- Key Laboratory of Modern Acoustics (MOE), Institute of Acoustics, School of Physics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Nanotechnology, Eco-materials and Renewable Energy Research Center (ERERC), National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
- Haoqiang Chi
- Key Laboratory of Modern Acoustics (MOE), Institute of Acoustics, School of Physics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Nanotechnology, Eco-materials and Renewable Energy Research Center (ERERC), National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
- Jinlan Wang
- School of Physics, Southeast University
- Qing Shen
- University of Electrocommunication, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering
- Yujie Xiong
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China
- Zhigang Zou
- Key Laboratory of Modern Acoustics (MOE), Institute of Acoustics, School of Physics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Nanotechnology, Eco-materials and Renewable Energy Research Center (ERERC), National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
- Yong Zhou
- Key Laboratory of Modern Acoustics (MOE), Institute of Acoustics, School of Physics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Nanotechnology, Eco-materials and Renewable Energy Research Center (ERERC), National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36778-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 14,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
A photocatalyst for CO2 reduction to C3H8 is prepared by implanting Cu single atoms on vacancy rich TiO2 single layers. Key reaction intermediates, *CHOCO and *CH2OCOCO, are stabilized on the catalyst which promotes C-C bond formation.
