The Synergistic Effect of Heteroatom Doping and Vacancy on The Reduction of CO2 by Photocatalysts

Against the backdrop of rapid world economic growth and energy shortages, we are facing a big challenge about carbon-containing resources converting. To solve the problems of energy and environmental, developing the catalysts to converse the carbon-containing resources with high-efficiency is very important. It has been proved that the vacancy and heteroatom doping can promote the activity of photocatalyst to reduce CO2. Herein, we provide a concise overview on the synergistic effects of defect and heteroatom doping about how to improve the activity of photocatalysts to reduce CO2, and to make a future perspective in the synergistic effects of vacancy and heteroatom doping for photocatalytic CO2 reduction.