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

该项目旨在开发使用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，将用于开发高效设备，通过使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。密度泛函理论计算和同步加速器研究将被用来研究二氧化碳在这些纳米薄片上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发电问题，并有利于制造业减少向环境排放二氧化碳。

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.