Replacing fossil fuels with energy sources and carriers that are sustainable, environmentally
benign, and affordable is amongst the most pressing challenges for future socio-economic …

Redox processes are at the heart of synthetic methods that rely on either electrochemistry or
photoredox catalysis, but how do electrochemistry and photoredox catalysis compare? Both …

In the recent years, polyoxometalate (POM) encapsulated metal–organic framework (MOF)
composites have attracted much attention in photocatalysis. Both POMs and MOFs have …

Molecular catalysis plays an essential role in both natural and artificial photosynthesis (AP).
However, the field of molecular catalysis for AP has gradually declined in recent years …

The synthesis of renewable fuels from abundant water or the greenhouse gas CO2 is a
major step toward creating sustainable and scalable energy storage technologies. In the last …

Full water splitting into hydrogen and oxygen on semiconductor nanocrystals is a
challenging task; overpotentials must be overcome for both half-reactions and different …

The four-electron oxidation of water (2H2O→ O2+ 4H++ 4e−) is considered the main
bottleneck in artificial photosynthesis. In nature, this reaction is catalysed by a Mn4CaO5 …

Sunlight is our most abundant, clean and inexhaustible energy source. However, its diffuse
and intermittent nature makes it difficult to use directly, suggesting that we should instead …

A fundamental change has been achieved in understanding surface electrochemistry due to
the profound knowledge of the nature of electrocatalytic processes accumulated over the …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201600054 ability. Thus, recently some studies have tried to address
this issue by adding OER co-catalysts.[20–26] Cerium (IV) oxide (CeO 2, ceria) has …