Transition metal-based catalysts for the electrochemical CO 2 reduction: from atoms and molecules to nanostructured materials

F Franco, C Rettenmaier, HS Jeon… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) powered by renewable energy is an
attractive sustainable approach to mitigate CO2 emissions and to produce fuels or value …

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 …

CO2 Hydrogenation to Formate and Methanol as an Alternative to Photo- and Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

WH Wang, Y Himeda, JT Muckerman… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Carbon dioxide is one of the end products of combustion, and is not a benign component of
the atmosphere. The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has reached unprecedented …

Self-supported nanoporous cobalt phosphide nanowire arrays: an efficient 3D hydrogen-evolving cathode over the wide range of pH 0–14

J Tian, Q Liu, AM Asiri, X Sun - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
In this Communication, we report the topotactic fabrication of self-supported nanoporous
cobalt phosphide nanowire arrays on carbon cloth (CoP/CC) via low-temperature …

Extraordinarily efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution in water using semiconductor nanorods integrated with crystalline Ni 2 P cocatalysts

Z Sun, H Zheng, J Li, P Du - Energy & environmental science, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Photocatalytic hydrogen evolution via water splitting is an attractive scientific and
technological goal to address the increasing global demand for clean energy and to reduce …

A pentanuclear iron catalyst designed for water oxidation

M Okamura, M Kondo, R Kuga, Y Kurashige, T Yanai… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Although the oxidation of water is efficiently catalysed by the oxygen-evolving complex in
photosystem II (refs and), it remains one of the main bottlenecks when aiming for synthetic …

Evaluation of homogeneous electrocatalysts by cyclic voltammetry

ES Rountree, BD McCarthy, TT Eisenhart… - Inorganic …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The pursuit of solar fuels has motivated extensive research on molecular electrocatalysts
capable of evolving hydrogen from protic solutions, reducing CO2, and oxidizing water …

Proton-coupled electron transfer: Moving together and charging forward

S Hammes-Schiffer - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015 - ACS Publications
Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) is ubiquitous throughout chemistry and biology.
This Perspective discusses recent advances and current challenges in the field of PCET …

Turnover numbers, turnover frequencies, and overpotential in molecular catalysis of electrochemical reactions. Cyclic voltammetry and preparative-scale electrolysis

C Costentin, S Drouet, M Robert… - Journal of the American …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The search for efficient catalysts to face modern energy challenges requires evaluation and
comparison through reliable methods. Catalytic current efficiencies may be the combination …