title: Photocatalytic CO2Reduction by Carbon-Coated Indium-Oxide Nanobelts.
abstract: Indium-oxide (In2O3) nanobelts coated by a 5-nm-thick carbon layer provide an enhanced photocatalytic reduction of CO2to CO and CH4, yielding CO and CH4evolution rates of 126.6 and 27.9 μmol h-1, respectively, with water as reductant and Pt as co-catalyst. The carbon coat promotes the absorption of visible light, improves the separation of photoinduced electron-hole pairs, increases the chemisorption of CO2, makes more protons from water splitting participate in CO2reduction, and thereby facilitates the photocatalytic reduction of CO2to CO and CH4.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology , Hefei 230009, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yun-Xiang
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-7992-1544
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712, United States.
authors.forename: Ya
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: You
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712, United States.
authors.forename: Sen
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-0546-0626
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Xin
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712, United States.
authors.forename: Yutao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712, United States.
authors.forename: Gengtao
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712, United States.
authors.forename: Zhiming
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology , Hefei 230009, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yu-Long
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Men
authors.affiliation: College of Science, Huazhong Agricultural University , Wuhan 430070, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Fei-Fei
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-4290-2032
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.affiliation: Division of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Shu-Hong
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-3732-1011
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712, United States.
authors.forename: John B
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-9350-3034
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Goodenough