Artificial photosynthesis: opportunities and challenges of molecular catalysts

B Zhang, L Sun - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular catalysis plays an essential role in both natural and artificial photosynthesis (AP).
However, the field of molecular catalysis for AP has gradually declined in recent years …

Water oxidation catalysts for artificial photosynthesis

S Ye, C Ding, M Liu, A Wang, Q Huang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Water oxidation is the primary reaction of both natural and artificial photosynthesis.
Developing active and robust water oxidation catalysts (WOCs) is the key to constructing …

Design of molecular water oxidation catalysts with earth-abundant metal ions

M Kondo, H Tatewaki, S Masaoka - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The four-electron oxidation of water (2H2O→ O2+ 4H++ 4e−) is considered the main
bottleneck in artificial photosynthesis. In nature, this reaction is catalysed by a Mn4CaO5 …

Polymer photoelectrodes for solar fuel production: progress and challenges

M Thangamuthu, Q Ruan, PO Ohemeng, B Luo… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Converting solar energy to fuels has attracted substantial interest over the past decades
because it has the potential to sustainably meet the increasing global energy demand …

Molecular catalysts for water oxidation

JD Blakemore, RH Crabtree, GW Brudvig - Chemical Reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The development of technologies for the production of chemical fuels or useful compounds
with renewable energy (eg, sunlight) and inexpensive feedstocks relies on an abundant …

Significance of engineering the octahedral units to promote the oxygen evolution reaction of spinel oxides

Y Zhou, S Sun, C Wei, Y Sun, P Xi, Z Feng… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The clean energy carrier, hydrogen, if efficiently produced by water electrolysis using
renewable energy input, would revolutionize the energy landscape. It is the sluggish oxygen …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial photosynthesis: molecular systems for catalytic water oxidation

MD Karkas, O Verho, EV Johnston… - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
The sustainable production of clean energy constitutes one of the most important scientific
challenges of the 21st century. Currently, the major part of the global energy supply is …

Polyoxometalate water oxidation catalysts and the production of green fuel

H Lv, YV Geletii, C Zhao, JW Vickers, G Zhu… - Chemical Society …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last five years and currently, research on solar fuels has been intense and no sub-
area in this field has been more active than the development of water oxidation catalysts …

Photochemical water oxidation by crystalline polymorphs of manganese oxides: structural requirements for catalysis

DM Robinson, YB Go, M Mui, G Gardner… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Manganese oxides occur naturally as minerals in at least 30 different crystal structures,
providing a rigorous test system to explore the significance of atomic positions on the …

Quantum mechanical studies of large metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide nanoparticles and clusters

A Fernando, KLDM Weerawardene… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide materials have a wide variety of applications.
For example, many metal clusters and nanoparticles are used as catalysts for reactions …