Plants produce oxygen from water, but the same chemical reaction is hard to achieve synthetically. A new family of catalysts could breathe fresh life into the quest for artificial photosynthesis.
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Meyer, T. The art of splitting water. Nature 451, 778–779 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/451778a
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