Solar utilization beyond photosynthesis

J Lv, J Xie, AGA Mohamed, X Zhang, Y Feng… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Natural photosynthesis is an efficient biochemical process which converts solar energy into
energy-rich carbohydrates. By understanding the key photoelectrochemical processes and …

Metalloporphyrins as catalytic models for studying hydrogen and oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction reactions

X Li, H Lei, L Xie, N Wang, W Zhang… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), and
oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are involved in biological and artificial energy conversions …

Coordination tuning of metal porphyrins for improved oxygen evolution reaction

H Lv, XP Zhang, K Guo, J Han, H Guo… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The nucleophilic attack of water or hydroxide on metal‐oxo units forms an O− O bond in the
oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Coordination tuning to improve this attack is intriguing but …

Identifying intermediates in electrocatalytic water oxidation with a manganese corrole complex

X Li, XP Zhang, M Guo, B Lv, K Guo, X Jin… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Water nucleophilic attack (WNA) on high-valent terminal Mn-oxo species is proposed for O–
O bond formation in natural and artificial water oxidation. Herein, we report an …

Introducing Water‐Network‐Assisted Proton Transfer for Boosted Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution with Cobalt Corrole

X Li, B Lv, XP Zhang, X Jin, K Guo… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Proton transfer is vital for many biological and chemical reactions. Hydrogen‐bonded water‐
containing networks are often found in enzymes to assist proton transfer, but similar strategy …

BiVO4@ ZnIn2S4/Ti3C2 MXene quantum dots assembly all-solid-state direct Z-Scheme photocatalysts for efficient visible-light-driven overall water splitting

X Du, T Zhao, Z Xiu, Z Xing, Z Li, K Pan, S Yang… - Applied Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Novel BiVO 4@ ZnIn 2 S 4/Ti 3 C 2 MXene quantum dots (QDs) assembly all-solid-
state direct Z-scheme photocatalyst is fabricated via in-situ growth combined with two-step …

Rare-Earth Elements Can Structurally and Energetically Replace the Calcium in a Synthetic Mn4CaO4-Cluster Mimicking the Oxygen-Evolving Center in …

R Yao, Y Li, Y Chen, B Xu, C Chen… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The oxygen-evolving center (OEC) in photosynthesis is a unique biological Mn4CaO5
cluster catalyzing the water-splitting reaction. A great current challenge is to achieve a …

A Bioinspired Free‐Standing 2D Crown‐Ether‐Based Polyimine Membrane for Selective Proton Transport

Y Qian, Y Wu, S Qiu, X He, Y Liu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biological proton channels play important roles in the delicate metabolism process, and
have led to great interest in mimicking selective proton transport. Herein, we designed a …

Coordination Number in High-Spin–Low-Spin Equilibrium in Cluster Models of the S2 State of the Oxygen Evolving Complex

AA Shiau, HB Lee, PH Oyala… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The S2 state of the Oxygen Evolving Complex (OEC) of Photosystem II (PSII) shows high-
spin (HS) and low-spin (LS) EPR signals attributed to distinct structures based on …

[HTML][HTML] Supramolecular chlorophyll aggregates inspired from specific light-harvesting antenna “chlorosome”: Static nanostructure, dynamic construction process, and …

S Matsubara, H Tamiaki - Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C …, 2020 - Elsevier
Photosynthetic light-harvesting antennas possess a variety of supramolecular structures with
the same function (collecting sunlight energy), dependent on their living habitats and …