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Nanostructured materials based on titanium modified with dopants (Cu) and metal nanoparticles (Au and Ag) have been incorporated into the microreactors as photocatalysing materials. Likewise, those materials are partially modified to carry out their conversion in MOF (metal organic frameworks), which are materials with a high absorption capacity that will have a positive effect on photovoltaic reactions of converting CO2 into useful products, which is the primary goal of the project. Those new materials that have an increased absorption capacity and good photocatalytic properties encourage us to continue along this line of development for increasing CO2 conversion capacity.

The main goals that have been achieved are the following.

A photoreaction system based on an integrating sphere to control the lighting of the experiments done in the microreactors better was fabricated.

Microreactors were designed and fabricated using direct 3D printing and photoactive materials were integrated into them.

Highly photoactive TiO2 nanoparticles, doped with metals like Cu and stable liquid dispersions of them were fabricated using the flame pyrolysis technique.

A partial synthesis of MOF using the photocatalyser dopants to increase the CO2 absorption capacity was done.

A study of the optical properties of the photocatalysers for their potential use as photonic crystals was done.