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NATURE PHOTONICS
Volume 6, Issue 8, Pages 511-518Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.175
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- JST, PRESTO
- International Research Center for Renewable Energy, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51121092]
- EPSRC
- European Research Council
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F00270X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/F00270X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Hydrogen generated from solar-driven water-splitting has the potential to be a clean, sustainable and abundant energy source. Inspired by natural photosynthesis, artificial solar water-splitting devices are now being designed and tested. Recent developments based on molecular and/or nanostructure designs have led to advances in our understanding of light-induced charge separation and subsequent catalytic water oxidation and reduction reactions. Here we review some of the recent progress towards developing artificial photosynthetic devices, together with their analogies to biological photosynthesis, including technologies that focus on the development of visible-light active hetero-nanostructures and require an understanding of the underlying interfacial carrier dynamics. Finally, we propose a vision for a future sustainable hydrogen fuel community based on artificial photosynthesis.
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