Artificial foliage with remarkable quantum conversion efficiency in bicarbonate to formate

An efficient heterogeneous immobilized device for the photoreduction of bicarbonate to formate was achieved by a thin-film semiconductor with metallophthalocyanines. The two-layer devices were fabricated by the deposition of (TiO2 or Cu2O) and zinc or cobalt phthalocyanines as photosensitizer onto an SiO2 disc.