Artificial photosynthesis articles within Nature

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  03 May 2023 | Open Access

  The electron–proton bottleneck of photosynthetic oxygen evolution

  Microsecond infrared spectroscopy together with quantum chemistry reveal the rate-determining proton and electron movements and identify an oxygen-radical state of the manganese cluster as the S4 state.

  • Paul Greife
  • , Matthias Schönborn
  •  & Holger Dau

• Article | 04 January 2023

  Solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of more than 9% in photocatalytic water splitting

  Photocatalytic water splitting with a high solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of more than nine per cent is achieved using pure water, concentrated solar light and an indium gallium nitride photocatalyst.

  • Peng Zhou
  • , Ishtiaque Ahmed Navid
  •  & Zetian Mi