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Preface The earth’s sustainable development is threatened by the energy exhaustion and rising atmospheric concentrations of CO2 linked to global warming. One of the causes of the energy crisis and the increased atmospheric CO2 content could be the imbalance between the rapid consumption of fossil fuels due to anthropogenic activities and the slow formation of fossil fuels. An efficient method for counteracting the imbalance in the carbon cycle and keeping sustainable development should involve CO2 utilization and conversion. To further promote research and development in CO2 areas, and to foster professional collaboration among researchers, we organized a symposium on “Materials and Technologies for CO2 Capture, Sequestration, and Conversion” as a part of the 246th American Chemical Society National Meeting, which took place September 8-12, 2013 in Indianapolis, IN (USA). This symposium was sponsored by the ACS Division of Energy and Fuels. This book was developed on this symposium. This book brings together recent advances in CO2 capture, sequestration, and conversion and consists of 14 peer-reviewed chapters, with emphasis on the photocatalytic conversion of CO2, chemical fixation of CO2, and CO2 reforming of methane. It also includes novel methods of CO2 reduction, such as selective hydrogenation in supercritical carbon dioxide and hydrothermal reduction of CO2, and the recent advances in CO2 capture and storage. All chapters were written by scientists and researchers who are experts in their own fields. Most of those chapters were developed from ACS articles presented at the symposium, and others were from invited contributors in the related research areas. This book is very useful for researchers and engineers in CO2 utilization and conversion. We would like to thank all the authors of the chapters for their contributions to the ACS book and the ACS symposium, along with all of the peer reviewers for their efforts in evaluating the manuscripts to improve the quality of those chapters. We also wish to thank the ACS Division of Energy and Fuels and ACS Books for the opportunities to organize the symposium and to publish this book, respectively. Thanks as well to Tim Marney and Anne Brenner of ACS Books for their great efforts in the peer-review process and production of this book.
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Fangming Jin School of Environmental Science & Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University Visiting Professor, Tohoku University, Japan Fellow, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Japan 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China +86-21-021-54742283 (telephone) +86-21-021-54742283 (fax)
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Liang-Nian He Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry State Key Lab of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University Tianjin 200071, P. R. China +86 22 2350 3878 (telephone) +86 22 2350 3878 (fax)
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Yun Hang Hu Department of Materials Science and Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931, United States 906-4872261 (telephone)
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