The United States has successfully developed new solar cells that convert greenhouse gases into fuel

Recently, engineers at Stanford University in the United States successfully developed how to use the sun to use water and carbon dioxide for artificial photosynthesis to produce new chemical products
.
Solar cells produce chemical reactions that convert the collected greenhouse gases into fuel, rather than feeding electricity into the grid
.

McIntyre, a materials scientist at Stanford University and a pioneer in the emerging field of artificial photosynthesis, led the mission, the results of which were published in the journal
Nature Materials.
Photosynthesis in plants uses the sun's energy to combine water and carbon dioxide to create the sugars
on which they depend.
Artificial photosynthesis will use energy from specialized solar cells to combine water and carbon dioxide to produce industrial fuels such as natural gas
.
Artificial photosynthesis faces two challenges: ordinary silicon solar cells are prone to corrosion underwater, while anti-corrosion solar cells cannot capture enough sunlight underwater to promote chemical reactions
.

In 2011, Thiel Laboratory successfully developed a corrosion-resistant solar cell
.
In the newly published study, McIntyre and PhD student Illman show how to increase the power of corrosion-resistant solar cells and set a new record
for underwater solar output.
McIntyre said in a Stanford University news report that the results of the study are important because they not only represent a major advance
in the performance of silicon artificial photosynthetic batteries.
Design rules
are created for high performance for different semiconductors, corrosion shields, and catalysts.
This technology will play a key role
in combating climate change.
Greenhouse gases from the chimney are injected into
large, transparent chemical tanks.
Solar cells placed inside chemical tanks will undergo a series of chemical reactions that convert greenhouse gases and water into another solar fuel
.