{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Xue S"],"funding":["MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)","MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China"],"pagination":["e2319751121"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11066983"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["121(18)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Defect engineering has been widely applied in semiconductors to improve photocatalytic properties by altering the surface structures. This study is about the transformation of inactive WO<sub>3</sub> nanosheets to a highly effective CO<sub>2</sub>-to-CH<sub>4</sub> conversion photocatalyst by introducing surface-ordered defects in abundance. The nonstoichiometric WO<sub>3-<i>x</i></sub> samples were examined by using aberration-corrected electron microscopy. Results unveil abundant surface-ordered terminations derived from the periodic {013} stacking faults with a defect density of 20.2%. The {002} surface-ordered line defects are the active sites for fixation CO<sub>2</sub>, transforming the inactive WO<sub>3</sub> nanosheets into a highly active catalyst (CH<sub>4</sub>: O<sub>2</sub> = "],"journal":["Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America"],"pubmed_title":["Enriching surface-ordered defects on WO&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; for photocatalytic CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;-to-CH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt; conversion by water."],"pmcid":["PMC11066983"],"funding_grant_id":["22272024 52222102 51871058 21961142019 22032002 U1905214 21425309"],"pubmed_authors":["Shen M","Xing W","Liang X","Yu JC","Wei C","Lin W","Wang J","Yang C","Hou Y","Xue S","Wang S","Wang X","Yu Z"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Enriching surface-ordered defects on WO&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; for photocatalytic CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;-to-CH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt; conversion by water.","description":"Defect engineering has been widely applied in semiconductors to improve photocatalytic properties by altering the surface structures. This study is about the transformation of inactive WO<sub>3</sub> nanosheets to a highly effective CO<sub>2</sub>-to-CH<sub>4</sub> conversion photocatalyst by introducing surface-ordered defects in abundance. The nonstoichiometric WO<sub>3-<i>x</i></sub> samples were examined by using aberration-corrected electron microscopy. Results unveil abundant surface-ordered terminations derived from the periodic {013} stacking faults with a defect density of 20.2%. The {002} surface-ordered line defects are the active sites for fixation CO<sub>2</sub>, transforming the inactive WO<sub>3</sub> nanosheets into a highly active catalyst (CH<sub>4</sub>: O<sub>2</sub> = ","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Apr","modification":"2025-04-04T03:04:02.845Z","creation":"2025-04-04T03:04:02.845Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11066983","cross_references":{"pubmed":["38662548"],"doi":["10.1073/pnas.2319751121"]}}