Water oxidation: High five iron
Abstract
The oxidation of water is essential to the sustainable production of fuels using sunlight or electricity, but designing active, stable and earth-abundant catalysts for the reaction is challenging. Now, a complex containing five iron atoms is shown to efficiently oxidize water by mimicking key features of the oxygen-evolving complex in green plants.
- Publication:
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Nature Energy
- Pub Date:
- March 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1038/nenergy.2016.23
- Bibcode:
- 2016NatEn...116023L