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 …

Electro-and solar-driven fuel synthesis with first row transition metal complexes

KE Dalle, J Warnan, JJ Leung, B Reuillard… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
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 …

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 …

[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 …

Heterogeneous Molecular Systems for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction with Water Oxidation

X Liu, S Inagaki, J Gong - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial photosynthesis—reduction of CO2 into chemicals and fuels with water oxidation in
the presence of sunlight as the energy source—mimics natural photosynthesis in green …

Finding the way to solar fuels with dye-sensitized photoelectrosynthesis cells

MK Brennaman, RJ Dillon, L Alibabaei… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The dye-sensitized photoelectrosynthesis cell (DSPEC) integrates high bandgap,
nanoparticle oxide semiconductors with the light-absorbing and catalytic properties of …

Molecular chromophore–catalyst assemblies for solar fuel applications

DL Ashford, MK Gish, AK Vannucci… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
As the world's population increases, the US Department of Energy has estimated that energy
consumption will increase with it, increasing from 5.7× 1020 J in 2012 to 8.1× 1020 J in …

Highly Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation Efficiency Based on Triadic Quantum Dot/Layered Double Hydroxide/BiVO4 Photoanodes

Y Tang, R Wang, Y Yang, D Yan… - ACS applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The water oxidation half-reaction is considered to be a bottleneck for achieving highly
efficient solar-driven water splitting due to its multiproton-coupled four-electron process and …

Mechanisms of molecular water oxidation in solution and on oxide surfaces

TJ Meyer, MV Sheridan, BD Sherman - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Initial experiments on water oxidation by well-defined molecular catalysts were initiated with
the goal of finding solutions to solar energy conversion. This account is a summary of …

Solvent‐Free Self‐Assembly to the Synthesis of Nitrogen‐Doped Ordered Mesoporous Polymers for Highly Selective Capture and Conversion of CO2

F Liu, K Huang, Q Wu, S Dai - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A solvent‐free induced self‐assembly technology for the synthesis of nitrogen‐doped
ordered mesoporous polymers (N‐OMPs) is developed, which is realized by mixing polymer …