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 …

While hydrogen plays an ever-increasing role in modern society, nature has utilized
hydrogen since a very long time as an energy carrier and storage molecule. Among the …

Enzymes have evolved to catalyse challenging chemical transformations with high efficiency
and selectivity. Although a number of artificial systems have been developed to recapitulate …

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 …

Reduction of oxides and oxoanions of carbon and nitrogen are of great contemporary
importance as they are crucial for a sustainable environment. Substantial research has been …

Global energy consumption is projected to increase, even in the face of substantial declines
in energy intensity, at least 2-fold by midcentury relative to the present because of …

Natural photosynthesis uses sunlight to drive the conversion of energy-poor molecules
(H2O, CO2) to energy-rich ones (O2,(CH2O) n). Scientists are working hard to develop …

This article sets out to review the chemistry relating to the synthesis of structural and
functional analogues of the three classes of hydrogenases. This chemistry has grown …

Density functional theory (DFT) was employed to investigate the behavior of a series of
catalysts used in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER, 2H++ 2e-→ H2). The kinetics of the …

A great technological challenge facing our global future is the development of a secure,
clean, and renewable energy source. 1-4 Rising standards of living in a growing world …