The synthesis of renewable fuels from abundant water or the greenhouse gas CO2 is a
major step toward creating sustainable and scalable energy storage technologies. In the last …

The development of synthetic systems for the conversion of solar energy into chemical fuels
is a research goal that continues to attract growing interest owing to its potential to provide …

Integration into a soft material of all the molecular components necessary to generate
storable fuels is an interesting target in supramolecular chemistry. The concept is inspired by …

The selective reduction of CO2 with inexpensive solar-driven photoelectrochemical devices
is a contemporary challenge in the quest for renewable fuel production. Here, we report a …

Self‐assembly is a bioinspired strategy to craft materials for renewable and clean energy
technologies. In plants, the alignment and assembly of the light‐harvesting protein …

The search for efficient noble metal-free hydrogen-evolving catalysts is the subject of intense
research activity. A new family of molecular cobalt (II)–polypyridyl catalysts has recently …

Conspectus Symmetry breaking charge transfer (SBCT) is a process in which a pair of
identical chromophores absorb a photon and use its energy to transfer an electron from one …

The use of multiple chromophores as photosensitizers for catalysts involved in energy-
demanding redox reactions is often complicated by electronic interactions between the …

Exploring a catalytic reaction other than water oxidation at the photoanode of a
photoelectrochemical cell is probably a key feature to more efficiently generate the electrons …

We demonstrate that the 10-phenyl-10 H-phenothiazine radical cation (PTZ+•) has a
manifold of excited doublet states accessible using visible and near-infrared light that can …