TY  - JOUR
AU  - Uddin, Nasir
AU  - Sun, Zhehao
AU  - Langley, Julien
AU  - Lu, Haijao
AU  - Cao, Pengfei
AU  - Wibowo, Ary
AU  - Yin, Xinmao
AU  - Tang, Chi Sin
AU  - Nguyen, Hieu T.
AU  - Evans, Jack D.
AU  - Li, Xinzhe
AU  - Zhang, Xiaoliang
AU  - Heggen, Marc
AU  - Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal E.
AU  - Wee, Andrew T. S.
AU  - Zhao, Haitao
AU  - Cox, Nicholas
AU  - Yin, Zongyou
TI  - Ultrabroadband plasmon driving selective photoreforming of methanol under ambient conditions
JO  - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
VL  - 120
IS  - 3
SN  - 0027-8424
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - National Acad. of Sciences
M1  - FZJ-2023-01718
SP  - e2212075120
PY  - 2023
AB  - Photoreforming of methanol has been envisioned as a promising pathway to produce H2 fuel which gained interest over the years. However, the formation of CO2/CO byproducts from this pathway has seen as a major hurdle to its practical realization because the evolution of CO2 and/or CO gases will negatively contribute toward the global-warming and/or environmental issues. To resolve these issues, herein, we discovered solar-driven ultrabroadband plasmonic photoreforming of pure methanol to pure, green and self-separable H2 energy production with zero-emission from an all-plasmonic Cu–WC/W catalytic system. The local electric field, lattice misfit strain, and the monodirectional flow of charge carriers by optical dielectric gradient work in synergy to enable the superior plasmonic photocatalysis in this all-plasmonic system.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - 36634137
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001179845800001
DO  - DOI:10.1073/pnas.2212075120
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1006570
ER  -