An artificial leaf device built with earth-abundant materials for combined H<sub>2</sub> production and storage as formate with efficiency

An artificial leaf device built with earth-abundant materials for combined H₂ production and storage as formate with efficiency > 10%

Published:2023 Issue:4 Volume:16 Page:1644-1661
ISSN:1754-5692
Container-title:Energy & Environmental Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Energy Environ. Sci.

Author:

Ampelli Claudio¹^ORCID,Giusi Daniele¹^ORCID,Miceli Matteo¹^ORCID,Merdzhanova Tsvetelina²^ORCID,Smirnov Vladimir²^ORCID,Chime Ugochi²^ORCID,Astakhov Oleksandr²^ORCID,Martín Antonio José³^ORCID,Veenstra Florentine Louise Petronella³^ORCID,Pineda Felipe Andrés Garcés⁴^ORCID,González-Cobos Jesús⁴^ORCID,García-Tecedor Miguel⁵^ORCID,Giménez Sixto⁵^ORCID,Jaegermann Wolfram⁶,Centi Gabriele¹^ORCID,Pérez-Ramírez Javier³^ORCID,Galán-Mascarós José Ramón⁴^ORCID,Perathoner Siglinda¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences (ChiBioFarAm), University of Messina, ERIC aisbl and CASPE/INSTM, Messina, Italy

2. IEK5-Photovoltaik, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany

3. Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland

4. Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Av. Paisos Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain

5. Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM), Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain

6. Technical University of Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany

Abstract

A major challenge for achieving the energy transition and transforming the current energy model into distributed production is the development of efficient artificial leaf devices made of earth-abundant materials for sustainable fuel production.

Funder

ETH Zürich Foundation

European Commission

Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

Agencia Estatal de Investigación

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Pollution,Nuclear Energy and Engineering,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Environmental Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2023/EE/D2EE03215E