Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Epitaxially grown silicon-based single-atom catalyst for visible-light-driven syngas production

  • Huai Chen,
  • Yangyang Xiong,
  • Jun Li,
  • Jehad Abed,
  • Da Wang,
  • Adrián Pedrazo-Tardajos,
  • Yueping Cao,
  • Yiting Zhang,
  • Ying Wang,
  • Mohsen Shakouri,
  • Qunfeng Xiao,
  • Yongfeng Hu,
  • Sara Bals,
  • Edward H. Sargent,
  • Cheng-Yong Su,
  • Zhenyu Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37401-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Despite the natural abundance and promising properties of Si, there are few examples of crystalline Si-based catalysts. Here, the authors report an epitaxial growth method to construct Co single atoms on Si for light driven CO2 reduction to syngas.