About the project
The overall aim of CLYOSPHERE is to demonstrate clean hydrogen production from the photothermal transformation of biomass-derived compounds, using solar light by integrating novel photoactive catalysts inside an innovative photoreactor based on solar Compound Parabolic Concentrator (CPC) configuration.
To reach this objective, CLYOSPHERE will develop new photo(thermo)catalysts based on semiconductors (Nb2O5, C3N4, TiO2, ZnO, etc.) and their heterostructures (e.g., Nb2O5/C3N4, TiO2/C3N4, ZnO/C3N4) capable of absorbing in the UV, Vis and IR solar irradiation, and metal nanoparticles presenting plasmonic effect and integrated in 3D porous carbon bodies -materials with strong light absorbing features and thermal conductivity- inside the photoreactor, allowing also a perfect flow-through architecture with maximized solar absorption.
