Into the net zero emissions and climate change control: From solid carbon waste to effective solar convertors

López-Sosa, Luis Bernardo; Zárate-Medina, Juan; González-Avilés, Mauricio; Servín-Campuzano, Hermelinda; Calderón-Benavides, Héctor Alfredo; Robles Hernández, Francisco C.

doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2022.01.066

Title: Into the net zero emissions and climate change control: From solid carbon waste to effective solar convertors

Journal Article · 04 February 2022 · Carbon

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2022.01.066 · OSTI ID:1981553

López-Sosa, Luis Bernardo ^[1]; Zárate-Medina, Juan ^[2]; González-Avilés, Mauricio ^[3]; Servín-Campuzano, Hermelinda ^[3]; Calderón-Benavides, Héctor Alfredo ^[4];

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Universidad Intercultural Indígena de Michoacán (Mexico); Univ. of Houston, TX (United States); Universidad Michoacana de Nicolás de Hidalgo (Mexico)
Universidad Michoacana de Nicolás de Hidalgo (Mexico)
Universidad Intercultural Indígena de Michoacán (Mexico)
Inst. Politecnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico City (Mexico)
Univ. of Houston, TX (United States)

Here, in this work, we demonstrate the potential for solar-to-heat conversion of carbon byproducts and their outstanding effects to reduce anthropogenic emissions. Those carbon byproducts are soots (biomass, evaporated carbon, etc.) as well as morphed graphenes. Our results cover optical characterization to demonstrate their suitability as heat capacitors and solar-to-heat convertors. Our raw materials are sustainable and currently considered environmental pollutants that require true attention to minimize global warming effects. Fortunately, they are ideal candidates to reduce the carbon footprints and can contribute towards a true net-zero environmental transition. We explore and demonstrate that soots are among the most competitive materials to transform solar energy into heat due to their absorption capacity, and durability. These materials are more competitive than commercial products and other known solar convertors demonstrating the superior thermosolar benefits. The best candidate is biomass with solar absorptivity, light emission, and cost reduction of 96, 85% and 15-fold, respectively, when compare to commercial products. Biomass and soot have comparable or better solar conversion characteristics, and sustainability than pristine carbon nanostructures and they are up to 3 orders of magnitude cheaper.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Molecular Foundry

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1981553

Journal Information:: Carbon, Journal Name: Carbon Journal Issue: C Vol. 191; ISSN 0008-6223

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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