Two advances towards the vision of the “solar fuels refinery” of the future are portrayed in the front cover art that encapsulates the essence of two papers published in the new elite Wiley-VCH journal Advanced Science entitled “The Rational Design of a Single-Component Photocatalyst for Gas-Phase CO2 Reduction Using Both UV and Visible Light” published by Laura B. Hoch, Thomas E. Wood, Paul G. O’Brien, Kristine Liao, Laura M. Reyes, Charles A. Mims and Geoffrey A. Ozin, in Advanced Science 2014, 1: Article first published online: 29 DEC 2014 | DOI: 10.1002/advs.201470001 and “Photomethanation of Gaseous CO2 over Ru/Silicon Nanowire Catalysts with Visible and Near-Infrared Photons” by Paul G. O’Brien, Amit Sandhel, Thomas E. Wood, Abdinoor A. Jelle, Laura B. Hoch, Doug D. Perovic, Charles A. Mims and Geoffrey A. Ozin, in Advanced Science, 2014, 1: Article first published online: 25 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1002/advs.201400001. The cover art, courtesy of Chenxi Qian, illustrates the concept of how “black holes” for photons, phonons, excitons and molecules, in two new classes of nanostructure, allow light-assisted, gas-phase heterogeneous catalytic CO2 reduction to CO or CH4. The ultimate goal of this research is to facilitate an energy transition from today’s unsustainable “fossil fuel economy” of burn-and-adapt to greenhouse gas climate change to a new and sustainable “carbon dioxide economy”, where greenhouse gas emissions are utilized as a chemical feed stock rather than being treated as a waste product.