{"id":4057,"date":"2021-01-08T17:14:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T17:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanowizard.info\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2021-01-08T17:14:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T17:14:59","slug":"co2-photocatalysis-sees-the-light-of-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/?p=4057","title":{"rendered":"CO2 photocatalysis sees the light of day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowizard.info\/wp-content\/media\/CO2RR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1112\" title=\"Cover Final\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nanowizard.info\/wp-content\/media\/CO2RR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"189\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Recently, Dimensional Energy, a spin-off company from Cornell University, has designed, built, and tested, a pilot-scale photoreactor for making chemicals using just carbon dioxide and sunlight, no additional heating or electricity is needed. As shown in the photograph, the setup consists of a tracking system, which collects and concentrates sunlight to the wave-guide reactor where the CO2 is catalytically converted to carbon monoxide or methanol by a In2O3-xOHy catalyst. This pilot reactor is now tested at a CO2 emitting coal-fired power-plant located at Gillette, Wyoming, USA to compete for the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/carbon.xprize.org\/prizes\/carbon\/teams\/dimensional_energy\">Carbon XPrize<\/a>, a step closer to the vision of the solar fuel refinery. See full story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancedsciencenews.com\/co2-photocatalysis-sees-the-light-of-day\/\">Advanced Science News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Dimensional Energy, a spin-off company from Cornell University, has designed, built, and tested, a pilot-scale photoreactor for making chemicals using just carbon dioxide and sunlight, no additional heating or electricity is needed. As shown in the photograph, the setup &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/?p=4057\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057"}],"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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4059,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}