Solar-Driven Paired CO₂ Reduction-Alcohol Oxidation Using Semiartificial Suspension, Photocatalyst Sheet, and Photoelectrochemical Devices.

ABSTRACT: Fuel-forming enzymes can display excellent performance, achieving high rates of catalysis with unity selectivity at minimal overpotentials, but they are generally considered to be fragile and difficult to handle in combination with synthetic semiconductors in light-driven chemical synthesis. Here, we demonstrate a biohybrid platform that is assembled from cyanamide-functionalized carbon nitride (CN_X) as a scalable and inexpensive photosensitizer that selectively photo-oxidizes 4-methyl benzyl alcohol (MBA) to its aldehyde (MBAld), indium tin oxide (ITO) nanoparticles as electron conduit and biocatalyst support material, and the enzyme formate dehydrogenase (FDH) for selective CO₂-to-formate reduction. This integrated semiartificial multicomponent system can be

SUBMITTER: Rahaman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11912307 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature