Author: Yong Zhou (Nanjing University) - With the rapid societal development, energy demand has increased exponentially and is mainly based on traditional and nonrenewable energy resources, such as petroleum, fossil fuels, and coal. The combustion of carbon-containing fuels releases a large amount of CO2, causing the greenhouse effect that contribute to climate change. Photocatalytic CO2 reduction into solar fuels is a promising approach to simultaneously alleviate current energy and environmental issues. In this presentation, we report the synthesis of a series of atomically ultrathin 2D structures, which contain an ultrahigh fraction of surface atoms, benefitting for efficiency and selectivity regulation of the target products toward CO2 photoconversion.
