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Semiconductor-Based Photocatalytic Systems for the Reductive Conversion of CO2 and N2

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Abstract

Semiconductor-based photocatalytic systems aimed at the reduction of carbon dioxide and dinitrogen are continuously studied for more than 30 years (Grätzel in Energy resources through photochemistry and catalysis. Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1983). A gradual shift from micro- to nanocrystalline semiconductor photocatalysts, which is, probably, the main trend in modern semiconductor photocatalysis/photoelectrochemistry, allowed to achieve attractively high quantum efficiencies of the CO2 and N2 conversion as well as to apply a potent array of spectral methods for the elucidation of mechanistic aspects of these important photoreactions. A decrease of the photocatalyst crystal size to a few nanometers allows not only to intensify the photocatalytic synthetic reactions but also to engineer the surface and band structure of the nano-photocatalysts to direct the reactions toward desirable products.

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Stroyuk, O. (2018). Semiconductor-Based Photocatalytic Systems for the Reductive Conversion of CO2 and N2 . In: Solar Light Harvesting with Nanocrystalline Semiconductors. Lecture Notes in Chemistry, vol 99. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68879-4_3

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