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Nanostructured Photocatalytic Approach to CO2 Conversion

Giancarlo Corti, Giancarlo Corti and Tejasvi Prakash, Tejasvi Prakash and Timothy Cantrell, Timothy Cantrell and Miles Beaux, Miles Beaux and Oscar Mar´ın-Flores, Oscar Mar´ın-Flores and David N. McIlroy, David N. McIlroy and M. Grant Norton, M. Grant Norton (2025) Nanostructured Photocatalytic Approach to CO2 Conversion. Clean Technology 2010, www.ct-si.org, ISBN 978-1-4398-3419-0 .

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Abstract

Several approaches to stabilize and reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations have been tested. While carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been hailed as the most promising approach for sequestering CO2 safely away from the atmosphere, the technology remains unproven, costly, and will likely not be commercially available for decades. An alternative to CCS is to consider CO2 as a commodity that can be converted or more specifically recycled into useful and valuable chemicals and/or clean burning fuels. This approach not only reduces or eliminates the amount of CO2 entering the atmosphere, but it creates a revenue stream to offset the cost of implementation. GoNano Technologies, Inc. has demonstrated a nanostructured titanium dioxide (TiO2) photocatalyst that can be used to selectively convert CO2 into methane, methanol, formic acid, and/or formaldehyde.

Item Type:Article
Subjects:Energy Science > QD Chemistry
ID Code:4566
Deposited By: Professor Balasubramanian Viswanathan
Deposited On:03 Jul 2025 02:56
Last Modified:03 Jul 2025 02:56

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