Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 811-817Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn305313q
Keywords
carbon nanostructures; functionalized graphene; artificial photosynthesis; water oxidation catalysis; polyoxometalates
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- University of Padova [CPDA104105/10, prot. STPD08RCX]
- Fondazione Cariparo
- INSTM
- MIUR [2010N3T9M4]
- MIUR (FIRB) [RBAP11C58Y]
- European Commission [NMP4-SL-2012-310651 SACS]
- University of Trieste
- ERC
- ESF Cost Action NanoTP [MP0901]
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The artificial leaf project calls for new materials enabling multielectron catalysis with minimal overpotential, high turnover frequency, and long-term stability. Is graphene a better material than carbon nanotubes to enhance water oxidation catalysis for energy applications? Here we show that functionalized graphene with a tailored distribution of polycationic, quaternized, ammonium pendants provides an sp(2) carbon nanoplatform to anchor a totally inorganic tetraruthenate catalyst, mimicking the oxygen evolving center of natural PSII. The resulting hybrid material displays oxygen evolution at overpotential as low as 300 mV at neutral pH with negligible loss of performance after 4 h testing. This multilayer electroactive asset enhances the turnover frequency by 1 order of magnitude with respect to the isolated catalyst, and provides a definite up-grade of the carbon nanotube material, with a similar surface functionalization. Our innovation is based on a noninvasive, synthetic protocol for graphene functionalization that goes beyond the ill-defined oxidation-reduction methods, allowing a definite control of the surface properties.
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