何乐教授及其合作者在Nat. Commun.上发表论文

作者：

Rui Song^1,2, Zhiwen Chen³*, Chenyue Qiu⁴, Yang-fan Xu¹,Andrew Wang^2,5, Xiaoliang Yan⁶, Yubin Fu⁷, Paul N. Duchesne⁸, Emerson MacNeil⁸, Jigang Zhou⁹, Chaoqian Ai¹⁰, Jiuli Guo¹¹, Chaoran Li¹, Xingda An¹, Zhijie Chen¹, Jiajun Han¹², Dengwei Jing¹³, Athanasios A. Tountas², Jessica Ye², Guangming Cai¹⁴, Joel Y. Y. Loh¹⁵, Abhinav Mohan², Wenqiang Qu², Zhihao Zhu², Camilo J.Viasus², Lu Wang¹⁶, Chang Xu¹⁶, Zhao Li², Xiaohong Zhang¹, Alán Aspuru-Guzik^4,17, Chandra Veer Singh⁴* ,Le He¹*& Geoffrey A. Ozin²*

单位：

¹Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Negative Carbon Technologies, Soochow University, Suzhou, PR China.

²Solar Fuels Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

³Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials, Ministry of Education, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, PR China.

⁴Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

⁵Chemical Physics Theory Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

⁶College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Clean and Efficient Coal Utilization, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi, PR China.

⁷Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany.

⁸Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada.

⁹Canadian Light Source Inc, Saskatoon, Canada.

¹⁰College of Engineering, Xi’an International University, Xi’an, PR China.

¹¹School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anyang Normal University, Anyang, Henan, PR China.

¹²Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China.

¹³International Research Center for Renewable Energy, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engi-neering,

Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, PR China.

¹⁴Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

¹⁵Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Photon Science Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

¹⁶School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, PR China.

¹⁷Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Sandford Fleming Building, Toronto, ON, Canada.

摘要：

Light-driven methanol synthesis from CO₂ provides a sustainable fuel source and approach to carbon neutralization. Mimicking natural photosynthesis could improve gas-solid photocatalytic efficiency, but it remains highly challenging due to the absence of well-organized mass and charge transfer networks in artificial materials. Herein, we report a chlorophyll-mimicking, nano-pigment nickel gallium oxide, which facilitates discrete light/dark reactions and proton-mediated charge transfer for efficient photocatalytic hydrogenation of CO₂ to methanol. This nano-pigment features surface frustrated Lewis pairs, enabling heterolytic hydrogen splitting into H^- and H⁺. The H^- acts analogously to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate in natural photosynthesis, with Ni(II)/Ni(III) and OH(-I) respectively serving as conduits for ion transport of H- and H+ to the Ni site, where they subsequently react with CO₂, mimicking natural carbon fixation. This approach establishes a chlorophyll-mimetic structure for photocatalytic stepwise CO₂ hydrogenation, achieving 3.0% quantum efficiency, 3.20 mmol·h^-1·g^-1 methanol activity, and 79.6% selectivity.

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链接：

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65560-y