Laboratoire de Chimie et Biologie des Métaux, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, CNRS, UMR 5249, CEA, DSV/iRTSV/LCBM, CEA-Grenoble, Grenoble, France.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2011 Aug 1;50(32):7238-66. doi: 10.1002/anie.201007987. Epub 2011 Jul 11.
The future of energy supply depends on innovative breakthroughs regarding the design of cheap, sustainable, and efficient systems for the conversion and storage of renewable energy sources, such as solar energy. The production of hydrogen, a fuel with remarkable properties, through sunlight-driven water splitting appears to be a promising and appealing solution. While the active sites of enzymes involved in the overall water-splitting process in natural systems, namely hydrogenases and photosystem II, use iron, nickel, and manganese ions, cobalt has emerged in the past five years as the most versatile non-noble metal for the development of synthetic H(2)- and O(2)-evolving catalysts. Such catalysts can be further coupled with photosensitizers to generate photocatalytic systems for light-induced hydrogen evolution from water.
能源供应的未来取决于在设计廉价、可持续和高效的可再生能源（如太阳能）转换和存储系统方面的创新突破。通过阳光驱动的水分解来生产具有显著特性的氢气作为一种有前途和吸引人的解决方案。虽然参与自然系统整体水分解过程的酶的活性位点（即氢化酶和光系统 II）使用铁、镍和锰离子，但钴在过去五年中已成为开发合成 H(2)-和 O(2)-析氧催化剂最通用的非贵金属。这样的催化剂可以与光敏剂进一步耦合，生成光催化系统，用于从水中光诱导产生氢气。
