Ru Ng, AY and Boruah, B and Chin, KF and Modak, JM and Soo, HS (2020) Photoelectrochemical Cells for Artificial Photosynthesis: Alternatives to Water Oxidation. In: ChemNanoMat, 6 (2). pp. 185-203.
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Abstract
Photoelectrochemical cells have been used as one of the most common artificial photosynthetic approaches to mimic natural photosynthetic water splitting reactions. However, despite the tremendous advances made to improve the affordability and efficiency of photoelectrochemical water splitting, it is still not an economically feasible method to produce solar fuels currently since only the H2 evolving reduction half-reaction generates valuable fuels. Therefore, in this review, we intend to highlight other underexplored substrates and reactions for producing solar fuels in photoelectrochemical cells, as well as alternative architectures including temporally independent and biohybrid systems. We show that besides water oxidation, electrocatalytic or photoredox reactions for pollutant degradation, biomass valorization, and organic chemical synthesis can be or have been successfully adapted for photoelectrochemical cells, thus offering a virtually infinite number of possibilities for artificial photosynthetic applications which generate valuable products in both the reduction and oxidation half reactions.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | ChemNanoMat |
| Publisher: | Wiley-VCH Verlag |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to the Authors. |
| Keywords: | Biomass; Catalysis; Cells; Cytology; Electrocatalysis; Electrochemical cells; Fuels; Organic chemicals; Oxidation; Photocatalysis; Photoelectrochemical cells; Water pollution; Water treatment, Bio-hybrid systems; Biomass valorizations; Electrocatalytic; Infinite numbers; Photoelectrochemical water splitting; Photoredox reactions; Pollutant degradation; Water splitting reactions, Artificial photosynthesis |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Chemical Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jan 2023 12:04 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jan 2023 12:04 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/79453 |
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