Publication date: 15th December 2025
The extensive combustion of fossil fuels has led to severe environmental pollution and global warming. Achieving carbon neutrality requires accelerating the development and deployment of clean, renewable energy sources. Converting small molecules such as water and carbon dioxide into green fuels and value-added chemicals via photo- and electrocatalysis offers a promising route to replace fossil fuels while reducing CO₂ emissions. This approach also enables the storage of solar and renewable electricity, addressing their intermittency and geographical constraints, and holds significant scientific and practical potential. In this talk, I will outline the background and importance of photo- and electrocatalytic fuel and chemical synthesis, and present our recent progress on photoelectrodes, electrocatalysts, and integrated devices for water splitting and CO₂ reduction.
Keywords: Photocatalysis; Electrocatalysis; Water splitting; CO2 reduction
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