Aspects of artificial photosynthesis. Photosensitized electron transfer across bilayers, charge separation, and hydrogen production in anionic surfactant vesicles

1981 ◽  
Vol 103 (10) ◽  
pp. 2507-2513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad S. Tunuli ◽  
Janos H. Fendler
2012 ◽  
Vol 155 ◽  
pp. 233-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Karlsson ◽  
Julien Boixel ◽  
Yann Pellegrin ◽  
Errol Blart ◽  
Hans-Christian Becker ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 352-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomokazu Umeyama ◽  
Hiroshi Imahori

In the past few decades, research on the construction of donor–bridge–acceptor linked systems capable of efficient photoinduced charge separation has fundamentally contributed to the fields of artificial photosynthesis and solar energy conversion.


2007 ◽  
Vol 363 (1494) ◽  
pp. 1283-1291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leif Hammarström ◽  
Stenbjörn Styring

Light-induced charge separation in molecular assemblies has been widely investigated in the context of artificial photosynthesis. Important progress has been made in the fundamental understanding of electron and energy transfer and in stabilizing charge separation by multi-step electron transfer. In the Swedish Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis, we build on principles from the natural enzyme photosystem II and Fe-hydrogenases. An important theme in this biomimetic effort is that of coupled electron-transfer reactions, which have so far received only little attention. (i) Each absorbed photon leads to charge separation on a single-electron level only, while catalytic water splitting and hydrogen production are multi-electron processes; thus there is the need for controlling accumulative electron transfer on molecular components. (ii) Water splitting and proton reduction at the potential catalysts necessarily require the management of proton release and/or uptake. Far from being just a stoichiometric requirement, this controls the electron transfer processes by proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET). (iii) Redox-active links between the photosensitizers and the catalysts are required to rectify the accumulative electron-transfer reactions, and will often be the starting points of PCET.


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