Project description
Lighting up the conversion of CO2 into methanol
With several advantages as a carbon-neutral fuel, methanol is an attractive energy vector that can be produced using only renewable resources. In this context, the EU-funded METHASOL project will create a sustainable and cost-efficient production process that relies on selective visible-light-driven gas-phase CO2 reduction, with a solar energy to methanol conversion efficiency of 5 %. The consortium consists of 14 partners from the EU and Associated Member States (China and the United States), including international researchers on artificial photosynthesis. The project will achieve a pioneering combination of a CO2 reduction reaction system based on a metal-organic framework and a graphitic carbon nitride for photocatalytic oxygen evolution reactions, through a Z-scheme heterojunction.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsliquid fuels
- natural scienceschemical sciencescatalysisphotocatalysis
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryalcohols
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbotany
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsenergy conversion
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
46022 Valencia
Spain
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Participants (16)
80539 Munchen
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430070 Wuhan
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75794 Paris
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34090 Montpellier
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14032 Caen Cedex 5
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78035 Versailles
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SW7 2AZ London
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116023 Dalian
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75230 Paris Cedex 05
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1015 Lausanne
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350108 Fuzhou
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32000 Haifa
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300071 Tianjin
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6200 MD Maastricht
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22314 Alexandria
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75008 Paris 08
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