“SPOTLIGHT solar fuels”: a disruptive photonic technology to create carbon neutral fuels
A new H2020 project that will develop innovative photonic devices for highly efficient, sunlight-fueled chemical processes. The sun is a valuable source of energy. It can be used to produce electricity but it can also be stored into complex chemical molecules: the solar energy allows converting feedstocks such as carbon dioxide
A Study on the Contribution of Laser Illumination
The interaction between plasmonic metal catalysts and visible light can be exploited to increase their catalytic activity. This activity increase results from the generation of hot charge carriers or hot surfaces, or a combination of both. We have studied the light-induced Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction of bromobenzene and m-tolylboronic acid using
