Selective light-driven methane oxidation to ethanol
Fei Xue, Chunyang Zhang, Cheng Cheng, Xueli Yan, Feng Liu, Xiaozhi Liu, Biao Jiang, Qiuyue Zhang, Lin Sun, Huiping Peng, Wei-Hsiang Huang, Chih-Wen Pao, Zhiwei Hu, Mingshu Chen, Dong Su, Maochang Liu, Xiaoqing Huang, Yong Xu · 2024
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Fei Xue and co-authors turn methane into ethanol with sunlight in a 2024 chemistry paper. Methane is a plentiful gas and a strong climate warmer, so upgrading it into valued liquids is a prize. Making two-carbon products like ethanol is especially hard, since the reaction stalls on slow energy and mass transfer and weak driving force.
Their catalyst starts from a crystalline carbon nitride sheet dressed with copper in two forms: tiny clusters of a copper sulfide and lone copper atoms. The clusters catch sunlight and turn it into local heat, while the lone atoms grab oxygen and make the reactive species that attack methane. Joining light-driven chemistry with heat on one surface cleared the bottleneck. Probes that watch the reaction as it runs back the division of labor between the copper forms.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Fei Xue, Chunyang Zhang, Cheng Cheng, Xueli Yan, Feng Liu, Xiaozhi Liu, Biao Jiang, Qiuyue Zhang, Lin Sun, Huiping Peng, Wei-Hsiang Huang, Chih-Wen Pao, Zhiwei Hu, Mingshu Chen, Dong Su, Maochang Liu, Xiaoqing Huang, Yong Xu |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |