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 …

The development of reliable water oxidation catalysts (WOCs) is essential for implementing
artificial photosynthesis on a large technological scale. WOC research has evolved into two …

Catalysts for the oxidation of H2O are an integral component of solar energy to fuel
conversion technologies. Although catalysts based on scarce and precious metals have …

The copper (II) complex Cu (pyalk) 2 (pyalk= 2-pyridyl-2-propanoate) is a robust
homogeneous water-oxidation electrocatalyst under basic conditions (pH> 10.4). Water …

Water oxidation is currently believed to be the bottleneck in the field of electrochemical water
splitting and artificial photosynthesis. Enormous efforts have been devoted toward the …

Photocatalysis offers a practical solution to the ever increasing energy and environmental
issues by using a semiconductor to harvest freely available sunlight. Photoactive organic …

Deployment of solar fuels derived from water requires robust oxygen-evolving catalysts
made from earth abundant materials. Copper has recently received much attention in this …

Inspired by the cubic Mn4CaO5 cluster of natural oxygen‐evolving complex in Photosystem
II, tetrametallic molecular water oxidation catalysts, especially M4O4 cubane‐like clusters …

Abstract Water oxidation (2 H 2 O→ 4H++ 4 e-+ O 2) is a key step in utilization of solar
energy for producing hydrogen of artificial photosynthetic system. Inspired by the oxygen …

To improve Cu-based water oxidation (WO) catalysts, a proper mechanistic understanding of
these systems is required. In contrast to other metals, high-oxidation-state metal–oxo …