Congratulations to the Solar Fuels team on the December 2014 publication in Advanced Science of their manuscript which reports the light-assisted, gas-phase reverse water gas shift reaction. In this work we have experimentally identified the key attributes of hydroxide groups and oxygen vacancies in non-stoichiometric indium oxide nanoparticles, In2O3-x(OH)y, that function in concert to facilitate the hydrogenation of CO2 to CO under simulated solar irradiation. This advance provides insight towards the rational design and optimization of single-component gas-phase CO2 reduction photocatalysts for solar fuels generation.
Congratulations!