Artificial photosynthesis: nanoengineered photoactivated materials for CO₂ conversion into hydrocarbon fuels = Artificial photosynthesis: nanoengineered photoactivated materials for CO₂ conversion into hydrocarbon fuels

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The development of solar powered photo-activated materials promises to have a major impact in a variety of future applications in environmentally friendly science, such as solar energy conversion (solar fuel and photoelectrocatalysis). Currently various strategies for synthesizing new hybrid materials that photocatalytically convert CO₂ into methane under solar irradiation, have been developed. It will be of significant interest to extend the results obtained in this work to new avenues, such as an examination of modified photocatalysts for hydrogen generation and in dyesensitised solar cells as an alternate energy source. It would be also very desirable to broaden these studies to a variety of environmental systems including antibiotic application and self cleaning systems.