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 …

Embedding biocatalysts in a redox polymer enhances the performance of dye-sensitized photocathodes in bias-free photoelectrochemical water splitting

F Cheng, O Pavliuk, S Hardt, LA Hunt, B Cai… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Dye-sensitized photoelectrodes consisting of photosensitizers and molecular catalysts with
tunable structures and adjustable energy levels are attractive for low-cost and eco-friendly …

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 …

Electron‐Donating Cu Atoms Induced High Proton Supply and Anti‐Poisoning Ruthenium Clusters for Superior Direct Seawater Hydrogen Production

C Yang, Z Wu, Y Zheng, Y Gao, T Ma… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Direct seawater hydrogen production via electrolysis would be a transformative technology
for large‐scale pathways for future sustainable energy systems. However, prohibiting the …

Enzymatic and bioinspired systems for hydrogen production

L Leone, G Sgueglia, S La Gatta, M Chino… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The extraordinary potential of hydrogen as a clean and sustainable fuel has sparked the
interest of the scientific community to find environmentally friendly methods for its production …