Materials Chemistry and Nanochemistry

材料化学和纳米化学

• 批准号: CRC-2013-00029
• 负责人: Ozin, Geoffrey
• 金额: $ 14.57万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Canada Research Chairs
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=694390
• 关键词: Materials; Chemistry; Nanochemistry

The project goal is to discover a new class of photocatalysts made of earth-abundant, sunlight-stable, non-toxic materials, scalable and low-cost, which have the capacity to generate at a globally significant rate, selectivity, efficiency and extent, solar fuels, such as methanol or methane from carbon dioxide, water and sunlight. The ultimate objective is an artificial photosynthetic process able to mimic how plants store chemical energy as carbohydrates, a holy-grail innovation that would provide a renewable energy alternative to fossil fuels, recycling instead of adding greenhouse gas to our atmosphere, ameliorating the intertwined global energy and climate change problems confronted by society today.

该项目的目标是发现一类由地球丰富，阳光稳定，无毒材料制成的新型光催化剂，可扩展和低成本，能够以全球显着的速度，选择性，效率和程度产生太阳能燃料，例如从二氧化碳，水和阳光中产生甲醇或甲烷。最终目标是一种人工光合作用过程，能够模仿植物如何将化学能储存为碳水化合物，这是一项圣杯般的创新，将为化石燃料提供可再生能源替代品，回收而不是向大气中添加温室气体，改善当今社会面临的相互交织的全球能源和气候变化问题。