Solar Energy and Chemistry
Delve into the science behind photovoltaic energy, exploring its chemistry, environmental implications, and the future of solar power in a world increasingly focused on sustainability.
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Liu and co-workers have integrated a photochemical process with a thermochemical process to convert the full spectrum of solar energy into chemical energy (Figure 13b).
This research shows that solar energy can directly enable chemical conversion to multicarbon products—complex carbon molecules useful for industry. It thus unlocks the potential for innovating other chemical transformations driven directly by renewable energy.
In this way, the photons with higher energy can drive the chemical reactions, while the rest of energy can be collected in the form of heat, enabling the cascade utilization of full-spectrum solar radiation. With energy and environmental problems becoming increasingly prominent, driving chemical reactions by solar energy is an attractive solution.
Converting solar energy into stored chemical energy within bonds, to be released at a time when needed, or to be used to make value-added chemicals has been achieved within research laboratories but the scale-up of these methods to achieve efficient and cost-effective sustainable alternatives is more challenging.
Delve into the science behind photovoltaic energy, exploring its chemistry, environmental implications, and the future of solar power in a world increasingly focused on sustainability.
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