Proceedings of MATSUS Fall 2023 Conference (MATSUSFall23)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsus.2023.093
Publication date: 18th July 2023
The replacement of fossil fuels by a clean and renewable energy source is one of the most urgent and challenging issues our society is facing today, which is why intense research is devoted to this topic.[1] 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 can be designed to capture light and oxidize water and reduce protons or other compounds such as CO2 to generate useful chemical fuels. One of the key aspects for the efficient design of useful devices for the making solar fuels is the understanding and mastering of the anodic reaction involving the oxidation of water to dioxygen. The talk will describe the initial developments up to the state of the art, of molecular water oxidation catalysts and their anchoring on conductive and semiconductive surfaces. The latter is crucial for the generation of powerful hybrid molecular anodes for the production of solar fuels.[2]
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