Valorize:
- To establish and maintain the price of (a commodity) by governmental action.
- To give or assign a value to, especially a higher value: “The prophets valorized history” (Mircea Eliade). [The Free Dictionary]
Noted in “Low-cost high-efficiency system for solar-driven conversion of CO2 to hydrocarbons,” Tran Ngoc Huan, et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America:
Carbon dioxide electroreduction may constitute a key technology in coming years to valorize CO2 as high value-added chemicals such as hydrocarbons and a way to store intermittent solar energy durably. Based on readily available technologies, systems combining a photovoltaic (PV) cell with an electrolyzer cell (EC) for CO2 reduction to hydrocarbons are likely to constitute a key strategy for tackling this challenge. However, a low-cost, sustainable, and highly efficient PV–EC system has yet to be developed. In this article, we show that this goal can be reached using a low-cost and easily processable perovskite photovoltaic minimodule combined to an electrolyzer device using the same Cu-based catalysts at both electrodes and in which all energy losses have been minimized.
I think there’s a word missing.
