AN ATTRACTIVE STRATEGY FOR SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION: AN OXYGEN FUEL FROM WETER
A carbon-free fuel can be generated from water by combination of artificial photosynthesis and nanotechnology, in the process of which the main body changed is oxygen atom in water, suggesting that this is an oxygen fuel. The energy stored in the fuel is a form of potential energy that could be obtained by changing the numbers, relative positions and arrangements of atoms within a given substance. Therefore, water molecules through redox reactions are capable of associating in structure with methylene carbene, a building block of hydrocarbon. The building blocks of oxygen fuel are isoelectronic species of methylene carbene that were synthesized by means of the modified photosynthesis, and oxygen fuel is the nanostructured assemblies on nanometer scales that were assembled by means of nanotechnology. The combustion products of oxygen fuel are water and isoelectronic species of carbon dioxide that will be converted into oxygen and/or ozone under the action of solar energy.
国际会议
2007世界太阳能大会(Proceedings of ISES Solar World Congress 2007)
北京
英文
2007-09-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）