Making Fuels with Sunlight and Hybrid Photoelectrodes
ORAL · Invited
Abstract
Hybrid photoelectrodes—accessed through integration of molecular fuel-producing catalysts with visible light-absorbing semiconductor materials—promise high selectivity, durability, and activity for the sunlight-driven generation of liquid fuels. Anchoring strategies to immobilize catalysts on photon-capturing materials can enable efficient coupling of light harvesting and fuel production. Immobilization also creates a unique microenvironment for the molecular catalyst that can influence selectivity, efficiency, and durability. Electrochemical, spectroscopy, and microscopy data together provide insight to how catalyst microenvironment affects the catalyst.
*This material is based upon work solely supported as part of theCenter for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels (CHASE), an Energy Innovation Hub funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award Number DE-SC0021173
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Publication: Dempsey, J. L.; Heyer, C. M.; Meyer, G. J. A Vision for Sustainable Energy: The Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels (CHASE). Electrochem. Soc. Interface 2021, 30, 65-67.
Presenters
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Jillian Dempsey
- University of North Carolina