Chinese researchers developed a new system to integrate CO2 photoreduction with oxidative organic synthesis to simultaneously produce solar fuels and value-added chemicals.

In a recent pioneering breakthrough, a research team led by Prof. ZHANG Tierui (Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) discovered the significant contribution of intrinsic carbon defects to electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction in carbon-based catalysts was revealed by experiments and DFT for the first time.