Using metal nanostructures to form hydrocarbons from carbon dioxide, water and sunlight

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dc.contributor.authorWang, Cong
dc.contributor.authorShen, Mengyan
dc.contributor.authorHuo, Haibin
dc.contributor.authorRen, Haizhou
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-05T18:42:15Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-14T22:35:36Z
dc.date.available2014-03-05T18:42:15Z
dc.date.available2020-02-14T22:35:36Z
dc.date.issued2011-10-21
dc.descriptionMengyan Shen serves on the faculty at UMass Lowell in the Department of Physics & Applied Physics and is head of the University’s Laboratory for Nanoscience and Laser Applications. Cong Wang, Haibin Huo, Haizhou Ren are Graduate Students in the Department of Physics & Applied Physics at UMass Lowell.en_US
dc.description.abstractBased on experimental results, we propose a mechanism that allows the use of metal nanostructures to synthesize hydrocarbons and carbohydrates from carbon dioxide, water and sunlight. When sunlight impinges on cobaltnanostructures in a glass chamber, its intensity is greatly enhanced around the tips of the nanostructures through surface plasmonexcitations focusing effect, and it then photodissociates the water and carbon dioxide molecules through enhanced photon absorptions of ions around the tips of the nanostructures. The photodissociated molecules in excited states remain on the cobaltnanostructuresurfaces and various hydrocarbons and carbohydrates then will be formed around the surfaces at temperatures much lower than 100 oC.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWang, C., Shen, M., Huo, H., Ren, H., Johnson, M. (2011, October 21). Using metal nanostructures to form hydrocarbons from carbon dioxide, water and sunlight. AIP Advances 1(4), 1-8. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/adva/1/4/10.1063/1.3657847en_US
dc.identifier.other10.1063/1.3657847
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12517/145
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAIP Advancesen_US
dc.titleUsing metal nanostructures to form hydrocarbons from carbon dioxide, water and sunlighten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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