Inorganic assembly catalysts for artificial photosynthesis: general discussion.

Anodic deposition of a robust iridium-based water-oxidation catalyst from organometallic precursors†

Artificial photosynthesis, modeled on natural light-driven oxidation of water in Photosystem II, holds promise as a sustainable source of reducing equivalents for producing fuels. Few robust wateroxidation catalysts capable of mediating this difficult four-electron, four-proton reaction have yet been described. We report a new method for generating an amorphous electrodeposited material, princi...

Directed Assembly of Nanoparticle Catalysts on Nanowire Photoelectrodes for Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction.

Reducing carbon dioxide with a multicomponent artificial photosynthetic system, closely mimicking nature, represents a promising approach for energy storage. Previous works have focused on exploiting light-harvesting semiconductor nanowires (NW) for photoelectrochemical water splitting. With the newly developed CO2 reduction nanoparticle (NP) catalysts, direct interfacing of these nanocatalysts...

Product Selectivity in Homogeneous Artificial Photosynthesis Using [(bpy)Rh(Cp*)X]n+-Based Catalysts

Due to the limited amount of fossil energy carriers, the storage of solar energy in chemical bonds using artificial photosynthesis has been under intensive investigation within the last decades. As the understanding of the underlying working principle of these complex systems continuously grows, more focus will be placed on a catalyst design for highly selective product formation. Recent report...

Manganese Compounds as Water Oxidizing Catalysts in Artificial Photosynthesis

Probing Structure/Property Relationships of Ce-rich Oxygen Evolution Catalysts by Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy

1. Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 (USA). 2. National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 (USA). 3. Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), MC 132-80, 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 (USA) A new family of Ce...