Hybrid molecular photoanodes for water splitting
Antoni Llobet a
a Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avinguda dels Països Catalans, 16, Tarragona, Spain
International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics
Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV18)
Benidorm, Spain, 2018 May 28th - 31st
Organizers: Emilio Palomares and Rene Janssen
Keynote, Antoni Llobet, presentation 191
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.hopv.2018.191
Publication date: 21st February 2018

The replacement of fossil fuels by a clean and renewable energy source is one of the mostn urgent and challenging issues our society is facing today, which is why intense research is devoted to this topic recently. Nature has been using sunlight as the primary energy input to oxidize water and generate carbohydrates (a solar fuel) for over a billion years. Inspired, but not constrained, by nature, artificial systems [1] can be designed to capture light and oxidize water and reduce protons or other organic compounds to generate useful chemical fuels. In this context this contribution will present how molecular water oxidation catalysts can be anchored on solid supports to generate powerful hybrid electro- and photo-anodes for water splitting. [2]

[1] Berardi, S.; Drouet, S.; Francàs, L.; Gimbert-Suriñach, C.; Guttentag, M.; Richmond, C.; Stoll, T.; Llobet, A. Chem. Soc. Rev., 2014, 43, 7501-7519.

[2] (a) Matheu, R.; Ertem, M.Z.; Benet-Buchholz, J.; Coronado, E.; Batista, V. S.; Sala, X.; Llobet, A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 10786-10795. (b) Creus, J.; Matheu, R.; Peñafiel, I.; Moonshiram, D.; Blondeau, P.; Benet-Buchholz, J.; García-Antón, J.; Sala, X.; Godard, C.; Llobet, A. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 15382-15386. (c) Matheu, R.; Moreno-Hernández, I.A.; Sala, X.; Gray, H.B.; Brunschwig, B.S.; Llobet, A; Lewis, N.S. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 11345-11348

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