Janus nanosheets for the capture of carbon dioxide and its conversion into clean fuels

该项目旨在开发具有有机碳氮化物和无机金属磷化物半导体的先进Janus纳米片。这些纳米结构提供了基本的和可调的半导体特性，将用于开发高效的设备，通过利用水和阳光的光电化学还原途径将二氧化碳转化为清洁燃料。密度泛函理论计算与同步加速器研究相结合，将用于研究这些纳米片上二氧化碳捕获和转化的基本机制的理论理解。这些低成本的纳米结构将有助于解决清洁能源的产生问题，并使制造业在减少二氧化碳向环境的排放方面受益。

This project aims to develop advanced Janus nanosheets with organic carbon nitrides and inorganic metal phosphide semiconductors. These nanostructures offer both basic and tunable semiconducting properties that will be used for developing highly efficient devices for the conversion of carbon dioxide to clean fuels through a photoelectrochemical reduction pathway using water and sunlight. Density functional theory calculation coupled with synchrotron studies will be used to investigate theoretical understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of capture and conversion of carbon dioxide over these nanosheets. These low-cost nanostructures will help address clean energy generation and benefit manufacturing industries in reducing the emission of carbon dioxide to the environment.