Proceedings of nanoGe Fall Meeting 2018 (NFM18)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.nfm.2018.214
Publication date: 6th July 2018
During this presentation we will introduce the A-LEAF project: "An artificial leaf: a photo-electro-catalytic cell from earth-abundant materials for sustainable solar production of CO2-based chemicals and fuels" (FET-PROACT-732840). This project, funded by the European Union, is a collaborative effort by thirteen partners from eight European countries, coordinated by the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), in Spain.
Our A-LEAF initiative aims to design and develop a fully functional scheme to transform sunligh, water and carbon dioxide into useful, sustainable and environmentally neutral fuels and/or fine chemicals. We have gathered a truly multidisciplinary consortium to cover all scientific expertise needed to overcome the major challenges: physicists to achieve sunlight capture; surface scientists to use this energy to oxidize water, extracting protons and electrons; electrochemists to use these equivalents to reduce carbon dioxide into useful stock; and system engineers to implement and fine-tune all components into a viable and cost-effective process. Because, in addition to the general scientific challenge, we have committed to use, exclusively, scalable processes, earth abundant non-critical raw materials and inexpensive platforms. Only with these added values, we may dream of bringing artificial photosynthesis, and solar fuels, to the future Energy pull, where societal impact is the ultimate target.
Our thirteen partner institutions: ICIQ, ETH Zürich, Universitet Leiden, IMDEA Nanociencia, Technische Universität Wien, Universitat Jaume I, Imperial College, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Forschungzentrum Jülich, Université de Montpellier, INSTM and COVESTRO; started the collaborative work in Januay 2017, and the major results and current state of the project (successful achievements and unexpected problems) will be highlighted and discussed.
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