Han, Guanqun

Abstract

Mankind's sustainable development not only requires the capture and conversion of renewable energies but also necessitates the production of chemical goods from renewable carbon sources. Biomass is the only accessible and renewable carbon source. One major class of biomass is degradative small molecules, among which 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is considered as a platform chemical and it can serve as a starting material to produce various upgrading compounds, eg, the oxidation products, 2, 5-furan dicarboxylic acid (FDCA), and 2, 5-diformylfuran (DFF), can act as biopolymer precursors. In this dissertation, we successfully demonstrated that ultrathin Ni/CdS nanosheets can be efficient photocatalyst to produce value-added bioproducts (eg, furoic acid, DFF, and FDCA) from biomass-derived molecules. Even more desirable is that the oxidative biomass upgrading can be integrated with H2 production.

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