(Invited) Development of Interfaces for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting and Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction in Acid Medium

摘要

The problem of continuously rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO_2), a greenhouse gas released through burning of fossil fuels, in the atmosphere becomes a critical environmental issue and concern over climate change. Consequently, there has been growing recent interest in the development of approaches to effectively sequester, capture, or convert carbon dioxide to useful chemical feedstocks that include syngas (CO + H_2), an intermediate for further Fisher-Tropsh processes, carbon-based simple organic fuels, or utility chemicals.