Second and outer coordination sphere effects in nitrogenase, hydrogenase, formate dehydrogenase, and CO dehydrogenase

ST Stripp, BR Duffus, V Fourmond, C Léger… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Gases like H2, N2, CO2, and CO are increasingly recognized as critical feedstock in “green”
energy conversion and as sources of nitrogen and carbon for the agricultural and chemical …

Electrocatalysts design guided by active intermediates of hydrogen evolution reaction

J Zhang, C Ma, S Jia, Y Gu, D Sun… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen production from water electrolysis plays an important role for the development of
hydrogen‐based energy sources. Develo** efficient electrocatalysts is crucial for …

A polymeric hydrogel electrocatalyst for direct water oxidation

Z Pei, H Tan, J Gu, L Lu, X Zeng, T Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metal-free electrocatalysts represent a main branch of active materials for oxygen evolution
reaction (OER), but they excessively rely on functionalized conjugated carbon materials …

Accelerating Electron‐Transfer Dynamics by TiO2‐Immobilized Reversible Single‐Atom Copper for Enhanced Artificial Photosynthesis of Urea

D Li, Y Zhao, Y Miao, C Zhou, LP Zhang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Photocatalysis as a sustainable technology is expected to provide a novel sight for the green
synthesis of urea directly using N2, CO2, and H2O under mild conditions. However, the …

Engineering Electro- and Photocatalytic Carbon Materials for CO2 Reduction by Formate Dehydrogenase

VM Badiani, C Casadevall, M Miller… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Semiartificial approaches to renewable fuel synthesis exploit the integration of enzymes with
synthetic materials for kinetically efficient fuel production. Here, a CO2 reductase, formate …

Fast CO2 hydration kinetics impair heterogeneous but improve enzymatic CO2 reduction catalysis

SJ Cobb, VM Badiani, AM Dharani, A Wagner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The performance of heterogeneous catalysts for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction suffers from
unwanted side reactions and kinetic inefficiencies at the required large overpotential …

From protein film electrochemistry to nanoconfined enzyme cascades and the electrochemical leaf

FA Armstrong, B Cheng, RA Herold… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Protein film electrochemistry (PFE) has given unrivalled insight into the properties of redox
proteins and many electron-transferring enzymes, allowing investigations of otherwise ill …

Hydrogenase as the basis for green hydrogen production and utilization

H Ji, L Wan, Y Gao, P Du, W Li, H Luo, J Ning… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrogenase is a paradigm of highly efficient biocatalyst for H 2 production and utilization
evolved in nature. A dilemma is that despite the high activity and efficiency expected for …

Reversible catalysis

V Fourmond, N Plumeré, C Léger - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
We describe as 'reversible'a bidirectional catalyst that allows a reaction to proceed at a
significant rate in response to even a small departure from equilibrium, resulting in fast and …

Polymer dots as photoactive membrane vesicles for [FeFe]-Hydrogenase self-assembly and solar-driven hydrogen evolution

MV Pavliuk, M Lorenzi, DR Morado… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A semiartificial photosynthesis approach that utilizes enzymes for solar fuel production relies
on efficient photosensitizers that should match the enzyme activity and enable long-term …