Minimizing greenhouse gas emissions is essential to mitigate anthropogenic climate change. Three strategies, decarbonization, carbon sequestration, and carbon recycling, can be used to decrease climate-damaging CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. Viable successor technologies urgently need efficient and robust electrocatalysts that reduce carbon dioxide and water to fuels and upgraded chemicals; this process is carbon-neutral by recycling. Water oxidation electrocatalysis, the anode half reaction, is also a central step towards a sustainable energy future. The development of new catalysts critically depends on synthetic methods that enable the preparation of tailored nanomaterials. We show how pulsed laser in liquids synthesis can be used as a flexible synthetic strategy for tailored surfactant-free nanomaterials with precisely and independently controlled properties. We also highlight rational catalyst design criteria for key frontiers in clean energy electrocatalysis.

Pulsed laser in liquids synthesis of clean energy nanocatalysts

ACS Fall 2021

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