on what we know and what we don’t know about the photocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide

Area of Interest:

Designing efficient materials for

photocatalytic conversion of CO2

HARIPRASAD NARAYANANAnnual Day Presentation

Venue : M V C Sasthri Hall Time : 10.30am

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CATALYSIS RESEARCH

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MADRAS

On what we know and what we don’t know about the photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide

On what we know and what we don’t know about the photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide

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CARBON DIOXIDE REDUCTION OR ACTIVATION ?

Do we need to be concerned on the

activation of carbon dioxide?

or

Its subsequent reaction with hydrogen for

the formation of value added chemicals?

“I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source

of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out

before we tackle that. I wish I had more years left”

Thomas Edison

“It is time to build an actual artificial photosynthetic system, to

learn what works and what doesn't work, and thereby set the

stage for making it work better.”

Melvin Calvin

“On the arid lands there will spring up industrial colonies without smoke

and without smokestacks; forests of glass tubes will extend over the

plains and glass buildings will rise everywhere; inside of these will take

place the photochemical processes that hitherto have been the guarded

secret of the plants, but that will have been mastered by human industry

which will know how to make them bear even more abundant fruit than

nature, for nature is not in a hurry and mankind is. And if in a distant

future the supply of coal becomes completely exhausted, civilization will

not be checked by that, for life and civilization will continue as long as the

sun shines!”

Giacomo Luigi Ciamician