Light-driven heterogeneous catalysis provides a promising way to accomplish chemical reactions by the use of light energy, which reduces the consumption of chemical energy sources. Here, we show that Ru/CeO2 catalysts exhibit high activity for the hydrogenation of CO2 to methane under illumination only, reaching high CO2 conversion (over 99.9%) and selectivity of methane (∼100%) at low temperature. In sharp contrast, less CO2 is converted at the same temperature when a traditional heating model is used. As revealed by the results, the enhanced...
