Driving Chemical Transformations Through the Power of Solar Energy (IMAGE)

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Driving Chemical Transformations Through the Power of Solar Energy

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Conversion of CO2 to butene via a solar-driven tandem process. First, CO2 is converted to ethylene using an electrochemical reactor and solar-derived electricity. Next, ethylene is converted to butene via thermal catalysis with heat from solar irradiation
 

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Image courtesy of Yap, K.M.K., et al., CO 2 Conversion to Butene via a Tandem Photovoltaic–Electrochemical/Photothermocatalytic Process: A Co-Design Approach to Coupled Microenvironments. ACS Energy Letters 9, 9 (2024).

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