Abstract
Article DFG priority program SPP 1613 “Fuels Produced Regeneratively Through Light-Driven Water Splitting” was published on June 1, 2020 in the journal Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie (volume 234, issue 6).
Highlights
A further use of fossil energy sources as oil, gas and coal, which ensured energy supply for mankind in the past, is no longer possible
During the funding periods of the SPP there have been a number of international collaborative efforts and meetings on the subject of light induced photoelectrosynthetic approaches to solar fuels, which can be taken as profound evidence for the scientific, technological, and societal relevance of the topic
It is fair to argue that the basic understanding of the needs and future research goals for realizing an efficient synthetic artificial leaf approach to a sustainable solar driven fuel generation has strongly improved within the last years most probably due to the results and success obtained of the priority program
Summary
A further use of fossil energy sources as oil, gas and coal, which ensured energy supply for mankind in the past, is no longer possible. The artificial systems identified till today do not reach sufficient efficiencies, or are far too expensive for industrial implementation This is due to the fact that the highly complicated electrochemical processes involved have not been fully understood, yet. The challenge was to couple semiconductors for efficient light absorption and separation with metallic, solid or biomimetic catalysts for the H2 (HER) and O2 (OER) evolution reaction directly from H2O. Within this concept the different individual projects of the priority program were selected to produce synergies by merging their different and complimentary expertise and approaches in collaborative efforts. The coordinator project provided the coordinative and integrative tools to accomplish this duty
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