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Catalysing artificial photosynthesis

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Efficient photocatalytic splitting of water to realize carbon-free production of hydrogen from sunlight remains a challenge. New precious-metal-free molecular catalysts in semiconductor-based, visible-light-driven water-splitting systems are promising for realizing practical artificial photosynthesis.

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Figure 1: Benchmarks in the development of artificial photosynthesis for photocatalytic hydrogen production.

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  1. and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Samuel S. Mao is at the Samuel Mao Institute of New Energy, Science Hall, 1003 Shangbu Road, Shenzhen 518031, China, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA,

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  2. Shaohua Shen is at the State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China,

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Mao, S., Shen, S. Catalysing artificial photosynthesis. Nature Photon 7, 944–946 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.326

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