Towards a Bioinspired-Systems Approach for Solar Fuel Devices

Remko J Detz; Ken Sakai; Leone Spiccia; Gary W Brudvig; Licheng Sun; Joost N H Reek

doi:10.1002/cplu.201600446

Towards a Bioinspired-Systems Approach for Solar Fuel Devices

Chempluschem. 2016 Oct;81(10):1024-1027. doi: 10.1002/cplu.201600446.

Authors

Remko J Detz^{1

2}, Ken Sakai³, Leone Spiccia⁴, Gary W Brudvig⁵, Licheng Sun^{6

7}, Joost N H Reek¹

Affiliations

¹ Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Chemistry, Kyushu University, Japan.
⁴ School of Chemistry and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, Monash University, Australia.
⁵ Department of Chemistry, Yale University, USA.
⁶ State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, P. R. China.
⁷ Department of Chemistry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

PMID: 31964092
DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201600446

Abstract

What lies ahead? In the development of solar fuel devices Nature provides the blueprint for artificial photosynthesis and water oxidation/reduction catalysts. Researchers have come a long way, but many challenges lie ahead.

Keywords: artificial photosynthesis; device design; photocatalysis; solar fuels; water splitting.