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Progress and Prospect of Photothermal Catalysis

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Recently, solar-driven synthesis due to its energy-saving and environmentally friendly advantages has attracted more and more attention, whereas the low solar-to-chemical conversion efficiency significantly hindered its development. New effective options that fully utilize full-band sunlight are urgently needed. Novel photothermal catalysis combined with the advantages of photocatalysis and thermalcatalysis can improve the utilization efficiency of solar energy and lower the reaction temperature, thus becoming a promising technology. This review divides photothermal catalysis into photo-assisted thermalcatalysis, thermal-assisted photocatalysis, and photothermal synergistic catalysis. Furthermore, the catalytic mechanical understanding of how photothermal affects the catalytic property of different applications(e.g., water splitting, CO2/N2 reduction, and environmental treatment) was also summed up and discussed in detail. The discussion ends with unsolved challenges in photothermal catalysis, particularly emphasizing the effect of temperature or sunlight on catalytic performance.

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This work was supported by the National Key Projects for Fundamental Research and Development of China(No.2018YFB1502002), the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51825205, 52120105002, 22088102, 22102202, 21902168), the Beijing Natural Science Foundation, China(No.2191002), the Chinese Academy of Sciences Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research (No.YSBR-004), the DNL Cooperation Fund of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.DNL202016), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.BX2021323), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China(No.XDB17000000), and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100090, P. R. China

    Shihao Du, Xuanang Bian, Yunxuan Zhao, Run Shi & Tierui Zhang

  2. Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100149, P. R. China

    Shihao Du, Xuanang Bian & Tierui Zhang

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Du, S., Bian, X., Zhao, Y. et al. Progress and Prospect of Photothermal Catalysis. Chem. Res. Chin. Univ. 38, 723–734 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40242-022-2039-4

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