Splitting water with cobalt |
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Authors: | Artero Vincent Chavarot-Kerlidou Murielle Fontecave Marc |
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Institution: | Laboratoire de Chimie et Biologie des Métaux, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, CNRS, UMR 5249, CEA, DSV/iRTSV/LCBM, CEA-Grenoble, Grenoble, France. vincent.artero@cea.fr. |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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Keywords: | bioinorganic chemistry electrocatalysis hydrogen production photocatalysis water oxidation |
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