Crystalline Transition Metal Antimonates as Earth - Abundant
Water Oxidation Catalysts in 1.0 M Acid Ivan Moreno - Hernandez, Clara A. MacFarland, Carlos G. Read, Kimberly M. Papadantonakis, Bruce S. Brunschwig, Nathan S. Lewis
The first is the more challenging of the two reactions, which is why research puts so much effort into the development of efficient and sustainable
water oxidation catalysts.
Not exact matches
«Someone will also need to determine exactly how Nocera's
catalyst is driving the
water oxidation reaction,» says Eisenberg, noting that achieving the first reaction alone is «an excellent development on a very difficult and keenly important problem.»
By
oxidation or reduction, i.e. the donation or acceptance of electrons, the
catalysts convert combustion pollutants, such as carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons, into carbon dioxide,
water, and nitrogen.
During the experiments and computational study, the researchers looked at how
water, surface hydroxyls and the metal - support interface interacted during carbon monoxide
oxidation over a gold - titania
catalyst.
Decoupling Hydrogen Production and
Water Oxidation in a Hybrid Solar - Driven Vanadium Redox Cell Supported By a Bipolar Membrane with Earth - Abundant
Catalysts Chengxiang Xiang
The same
catalyst they developed to split carbon dioxide also appeared to work for the
oxidation of
water, which is necessary to complete the reduction.
Some of the most fascinating
catalysts in nature display complex inorganic cofactors and perform chemical transformations (
water reduction and
oxidation, carbon dioxide reduction, dinitrogen reduction, dioxygen reduction) that are arguably prerequisites for the advance of society in the current context of limiting energy resources and environmental concerns.
With this knowledge, we can devise and design improvements on the cobalt oxide
catalyst and its support environment to partially or completely remove these bottlenecks and improve the efficiency of
water oxidation.»
The first direct, temporally resolved observations of intermediate steps in
water oxidation using cobalt oxide, an Earth - abundant solid
catalyst, revealed kinetic bottlenecks whose elimination would help boost the efficiency of artificial photosynthesis systems.
Frei, Zhang and de Respinis have reported their findings in the journal Nature Chemistry in a paper titled «Time - resolved observations of
water oxidation intermediates on a cobalt oxide nanoparticle
catalyst.»
«We've obtained the first direct, temporally resolved observation of two intermediate steps in
water oxidation using an Earth - abundant solid
catalyst, cobalt oxide, that allowed us to identify the kinetic bottlenecks.
The Molecular Catalysis Project involves directed discovery of homogeneous
catalysts for the key reactions involved in solar - fuel generation:
oxidation of
water to oxygen, reduction of
water to hydrogen, and reduction of carbon dioxide to carbon - based liquid fuels and selective intermediates.