{"id":3340,"date":"2018-04-05T21:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2018-07-26T16:13:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:13:25","slug":"congratulations-lu-mireille-and-co-authors-on-your-solar-methanol-paper-in-joule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/?p=3340","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Lu, Mireille, and Co-Authors, on your Solar Methanol Paper in Joule!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/wp-content\/media\/solar-methanol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1112\" title=\"Cover Final\" src=\"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/wp-content\/media\/solar-methanol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The current fashion for synthesizing methanol continues to be the high pressure and high temperature heterogeneous catalytic conversion of synthesis gas (CO-H<sub>2<\/sub>) using alumina supported nanostructured copper-zinc oxide as the catalyst and fossil fuel to power the process. It is an energy intensive process with a large CO<sub>2<\/sub> greenhouse gas footprint and a deleterious effect on the climate. Thus, it would be highly desirable to produce methanol in a sustainable way and use CO<sub>2<\/sub> as feedstock and solar energy to drive the synthesis. Solar technologies that facilitate the efficient conversion of CO<sub>2<\/sub> and H<sub>2<\/sub> into methanol offer a sustainable path to the production of renewable fuels. Furthermore, since about 30% of all known chemicals come from methanol, the production of solar methanol appears to be a \u201cgreener\u201d strategy for the chemical and petrochemical industries. In this breakthrough report in Joule, we present a \u201csolar methanol maker\u201d, a rod-shaped In<sub>2<\/sub>O<sub>3-x<\/sub>(OH)<sub>y<\/sub> nanocrystal superstructure, that can efficiently hydrogenate CO<sub>2<\/sub> to methanol at atmospheric pressure with a methanol selectivity for more than 50%. The remarkable production rate of 0.06 mmol g<sub>cat<\/sub><sup>-1<\/sup>h<sup>-1<\/sup> and excellent long-term stability of this catalyst in solar methanol synthesis makes it an interesting candidate for converting CO<sub>2<\/sub> to methanol at an industrial scale in a CO<sub>2<\/sub> refinery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A preview of the study by Chem be read <a href=\"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/wp-content\/media\/Solar-Methanol.pdf\">here<\/a>, along with the full article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/joule\/fulltext\/S2542-4351(18)30096-5\">Joule website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current fashion for synthesizing methanol continues to be the high pressure and high temperature heterogeneous catalytic conversion of synthesis gas (CO-H2) using alumina supported nanostructured copper-zinc oxide as the catalyst and fossil fuel to power the process. It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/?p=3340\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}