DOI码：

10.1093/nsr/nwac200

发表刊物：

NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW

刊物所在地：

OXFORD

关键字：

Chang'E-5 lunar soil; fuel production; CO2 conversion; extraterrestrial settlement; in situ resource utilization

摘要：

Building up a lunar settlement is the ultimate aim of lunar exploitation. Yet, limited fuel and oxygen supplies restrict human survival on the Moon. Herein, we demonstrate the in situ resource utilization of lunar soil for extraterrestrial fuel and oxygen production, which may power up our solely natural satellite and supply respiratory gas. Specifically, the lunar soil is loaded with Cu species and employed for electrocatalytic CO2 conversion, demonstrating significant production of methane. In addition, the selected component in lunar soil (i.e. MgSiO3) loaded with Cu can reach a CH4 Faradaic efficiency of 72.05% with a CH4 production rate of 0.8 mL/min at 600 mA/cm(2). Simultaneously, an O-2 production rate of 2.3 mL/min can be achieved. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our developed process starting from catalyst preparation to electrocatalytic CO2 conversion is so accessible that it can be operated in an unmmaned manner via a robotic system. Such a highly efficient extraterrestrial fuel and oxygen production system is expected to push forward the development of mankind's civilization toward an extraterrestrial settlement. This work demonstrates the in situ resource utilization of Chang'E-5 lunar soil for electrocatalytic CO2 conversion toward fuel and oxygen production in an unmanned operation manner via the robotic system.

合写作者：

Zhong, Yuan, Low, Jingxiang, Zhu, Qing, Yawen, Yu, Xiwen, Xinyu, Zhang, Fei, Shang, Weiwei, Long, Ran, Yingfang, Yao, Wei, Jiang, Jun, Luo, Yi, Wang, Weihua, Yang, Jinlong, Zou, Zhigang, Xiong, Yujie

第一作者：

Zhong, Yuan

通讯作者：

Long, R, Jiang, J, Xiong, YJ

论文编号：

WOS:000906772900001

文献类型：

Article; Early Access

页面范围：

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ISSN号：

2095-5138

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否