The NETPEC project

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NETPEC stands for "Negative Emissionen mittels photoelektrochemischer Methoden"/"Negative Emission Technologies based on Photoelectrochemical Methods" and is a collaborative project funded by BMBF.

The project aims for the development of negative emission approaches by photoelectrochemical means.^1,2 Using sunlight as an energy source, we want to convert CO₂ into products that can be stored easily, safely, and sutsainably. To this end, we study the involved processes and requirements by a highly interdisciplinary approach, spanning computational chemistry, spectroelectochemistry, electrocatalysis, photovoltaics, climate modelling, geological reservoir investigations to sustainability analysis. The involved institutions are Universität Ulm (A. Groß), Universität Tübingen (M. May, K. Rehfeld), Technische Universität Darmstadt (K. Reiter), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (A. Patyk), Universität Stuttgart (M. Saliba),  and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (P. Bogdanoff).

• 2022/03/30 The first publication of the NETPEC project has been accepted. A Perspective on Negative Emissions as the New Frontier of Photoelectrochemical CO₂ Reduction in "Advanced Energy Materials" by MM May and K Rehfeld. DOI:10.1002/aenm.202103801.
• 2021/12/9-10 The first NETPEC project meeting took place as an online event.
• 2021/10/13 Kira and Matthias gave an online talk presenting the NETPEC project on the pre-event of the Arctic Circle Assembly 2021.

[1] ESD Ideas: Photoelectrochemical carbon removal as negative emission technology, Earth System Dynamics 10(1) (2019), p. 1. doi:10.5194/esd-10-1-2019.
[2] Efficient Direct Solar-to-Hydrogen Conversion by In Situ Interface Transformation of a Tandem Structure, Nature Communications 6 (2015), p. 8286. doi:10.1038/ncomms9286.

Project coordinators:

Dr. Matthias May and Prof. Dr. Kira Rehfeld.
FONA project website: https://www.fona.de/de/massnahmen/foerdermassnahmen/CDR/netpec.php