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J.R.D. acknowledges financial support from the European Research Council (project Intersolar 291482). C.A.M. thanks COLCIENCIAS (now Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, call 568) for funding. J.R.D., C.A.M., R.R. and S.C. acknowledge H2020 project A-LEAF (732840) and L.F. thanks the European Union for a Marie Curie fellowship (658270). We also thank S. Zhang and W. Leng for their interest in our research and for encouraging insightful scientific debate.
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Mesa, C.A., Rao, R.R., Francàs, L. et al. Reply to: Questioning the rate law in the analysis of water oxidation catalysis on haematite photoanodes. Nat. Chem. 12, 1099–1101 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-00570-5
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