Sustainable production of fuels from CO2 reduction

Co-PI: Claudia Longo – UNICAMP – Chemistry Institute – clalongo@unicamp.br

The main objective of this project is the development of sustainable processes to synthesize alcohols, hydrocarbons and value-added chemicals from solar driven electrolysis of CO₂ in aqueous solutions. Specific objectives are: (i) synthesize photocatalysts (semiconductor metal oxides); (ii) application of n-type semiconductors to photoanodes for O₂ evolution reaction; (iii) development of photocathodes for CO₂ reduction with p-type semiconductors immobilized on gas diffusion electrodes; (iv) association of the photoanode and the photocathode in a solar-driven electrolyzer to photoelectrochemically convert CO₂ into solar fuels.