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Semi-synthetic strategy

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Semi-artificial photosynthesis offers advantages over purely natural or synthetic routes to producing chemicals from solar energy, but devices based on it have remained elusive. Now, researchers couple a dye-sensitized photoanode with natural components to generate H2 photoelectrochemically from water without additional bias.

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Fig. 1: Semi-artificial photosynthetic device for solar-driven hydrogen production.

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