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Towards a Bioinspired‐Systems Approach for Solar Fuel Devices

Towards a Bioinspired‐Systems Approach for Solar Fuel Devices DOI:10.1002/cplu.201600446 Viewpoints Towards aBioinspired-Systems Approach for Solar Fuel Devices [a, b] [c] [d] [e] [f, g] RemkoJ.Detz,* Ken Sakai, LeoneSpiccia, Gary W. Brudvig, LichengSun, and [a] Joost N. H. Reek Introduction and electrons necessary for the reduction reactions that form the fuels. In water electrolysis, the protons are directly reduced The projected devastating effects of globalclimatechange— to form dihydrogen, which has avery high energy density per caused by burning fossil fuels—forceour generation to find mass unit. The disadvantage of dihydrogenatatmospheric solutionsurgently.Efficient harvesting of solar energy,byfar pressure is that it is agas, which makes it challenging to store the most abundant renewable energy source,can provide the and transport at areasonable cost. For this reason,there is an world with enough energy to allow the completephasing out interestinusing other abundant starting materials for the re- of fossil fuels. Transformation of solar energy into electricity is ductionreaction, such as N or CO (captured from air or 2 2 well developed, and the production of solarenergy is steadily ocean). N can be reduced to ammonia, which as aliquid has increasing. The electricity that is generated from solar energy ahigh volumetric energy density.CO can be reduced to must be used directly,and this already leads to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ChemPlusChem Wiley

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DOI:10.1002/cplu.201600446 Viewpoints Towards aBioinspired-Systems Approach for Solar Fuel Devices [a, b] [c] [d] [e] [f, g] RemkoJ.Detz,* Ken Sakai, LeoneSpiccia, Gary W. Brudvig, LichengSun, and [a] Joost N. H. Reek Introduction and electrons necessary for the reduction reactions that form the fuels. In water electrolysis, the protons are directly reduced The projected devastating effects of globalclimatechange— to form dihydrogen, which has avery high energy density per caused by burning fossil fuels—forceour generation to find mass unit. The disadvantage of dihydrogenatatmospheric solutionsurgently.Efficient harvesting of solar energy,byfar pressure is that it is agas, which makes it challenging to store the most abundant renewable energy source,can provide the and transport at areasonable cost. For this reason,there is an world with enough energy to allow the completephasing out interestinusing other abundant starting materials for the re- of fossil fuels. Transformation of solar energy into electricity is ductionreaction, such as N or CO (captured from air or 2 2 well developed, and the production of solarenergy is steadily ocean). N can be reduced to ammonia, which as aliquid has increasing. The electricity that is generated from solar energy ahigh volumetric energy density.CO can be reduced to must be used directly,and this already leads to

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