Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden (The Netherlands); Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470/Mülheim an der Ruhr (Germany); Department of Chemistry, University of Engineering and Technology, GT Road, Lahore, Punjab 54890 (Pakistan).
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2013 Sep 27;52(40):10426-37. doi: 10.1002/anie.201300136. Epub 2013 Aug 19.
The development of new energy materials that can be utilized to make renewable and clean fuels from abundant and easily accessible resources is among the most challenging and demanding tasks in science today. Solar-powered catalytic water-splitting processes can be exploited as a source of electrons and protons to make clean renewable fuels, such as hydrogen, and in the sequestration of CO2 and its conversion into low-carbon energy carriers. Recently, there have been tremendous efforts to build up a stand-alone solar-to-fuel conversion device, the "artificial leaf", using light and water as raw materials. An overview of the recent progress in electrochemical and photo-electrocatalytic water splitting devices is presented, using both molecular water oxidation complexes (WOCs) and nano-structured assemblies to develop an artificial photosynthetic system.
开发新能源材料，利用丰富易得的资源制造可再生清洁能源，是当今科学界最具挑战性和需求的任务之一。太阳能催化水分解过程可以作为电子和质子的来源，用于制造清洁可再生燃料，如氢气，并用于封存 CO2 及其转化为低碳能源载体。最近，人们一直在努力构建一种独立的太阳能到燃料的转换装置，即“人工叶子”，使用光和水作为原料。本文综述了电化学和光电催化水分解装置的最新进展，使用分子水氧化配合物（WOC）和纳米结构组装来开发人工光合作用系统。
