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CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
Volume 43, Issue 22, Pages 7501-7519Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3cs60405e
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- Generalitat de Catalunya (GenCat) [2009 SGR-69]
- MINECO [CTQ-2010-21497, PRI-PIBIN-2011-1278]
- La Caixa Foundation
- GenCat
- Swiss National Foundation
- post-doctoral Marie Curie Fellowships
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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 has been devoted to this topic recently. Nature has been using sunlight as the primary energy input to oxidise water and generate carbohydrates (solar fuel) for over a billion years. Inspired, but not constrained, by nature, artificial systems can be designed to capture light and oxidise water and reduce protons or other organic compounds to generate useful chemical fuels. This tutorial review covers the primary topics that need to be understood and mastered in order to come up with practical solutions for the generation of solar fuels. These topics are: the fundamentals of light capturing and conversion, water oxidation catalysis, proton and CO2 reduction catalysis and the combination of all of these for the construction of complete cells for the generation of solar fuels.
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