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Novel windows for “solar commodities”: a device for CO2 reduction using plasmonic catalyst activation Navarrete, Alexander Muñoz Palacios, Sergio Sanz Moral, Luis Miguel Brandner, Juergen J. Pfeifer, Peter Martín Martínez, Ángel Dittmeyer, Roland Cocero Alonso, María José Energía solar Catálisis A novel plasmonic reactor concept is proposed and tested to work as a visible energy harvesting device while allowing reactions to transform CO2 to be carried out. Particularly the reverse water gas shift (RWGS) reaction has been tested as a means to introduce renewable energy into the economy. The development of the new reactor concept involved the synthesis of a new composite capable of plasmonic activation with light, the development of an impregnation method to create a single catalyst reactor entity, and finally the assembly of a reaction system to test the reaction. The composite developed was based on a Cu/ZnO catalyst dispersed into transparent aerogels. This allows efficient light transmission and a high surface area for the catalyst. An effective yet simple impregnation method was developed that allowed introduction of the composites into glass microchannels. The activation of the reaction was made using LEDs that covered all the sides of the reactor allowing a high power delivery. The results of the reaction show a stable process capable of low temperature transformations. 2016-05-09T11:45:06Z 2016-05-09T11:45:06Z 2016-05-09T11:45:06Z 2015 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Faraday Discussions: Carbon Dioxide Utilisation, 2015, vol. 183, p. 249-259 1359-6640 http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/16896 10.1039/c5fd00109a 249 183 259 183 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Royal Society of Chemistry