TY - JOUR
T1 - Manganese compounds as water oxidizing catalysts for hydrogen production via water splitting
T2 - From manganese complexes to nano-sized manganese oxides
AU - Najafpour, Mohammad Mahdi
AU - Allakhverdiev, Suleyman I.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was also supported by grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Nos. 11-04-01389a and 11-04-92690a ), Russian Ministry of Science and Education (No: 16.740.11.0176 ), Molecular and Cell Biology Programs of the Russian Academy of Sciences , and by BMBF Bilateral Cooperation between Germany and Russia (No: 8125 ).
Funding Information:
MMN is grateful to Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences for financial support. MMN also would like to acknowledge the members of his research group and collaborators who have contributed to the work described herein. Fig. 1 a was made with VMD and is owned by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics, at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
PY - 2012/5
Y1 - 2012/5
N2 - For hydrogen production by water splitting, the water oxidation half reaction is overwhelmingly rate limiting and needs high over-voltage (∼1 V), which results in low conversion efficiencies when working at current densities required. At this high voltage, other chemicals will be also oxidized and this would be environmentally unacceptable for large-scale H 2 production. In past few years, there has been a tremendous surge in research on the synthesis of various metal compounds aimed at the simulating water oxidizing complex of Photosystem II. Particular attention has been given to the manganese compounds not only because manganese has been used by Nature to oxidize water but also because manganese is cheap and environmentally friendly. In this review, we focus on manganese compounds as functional models of the water oxidizing complex of Photosystem II for hydrogen production via water splitting.
AB - For hydrogen production by water splitting, the water oxidation half reaction is overwhelmingly rate limiting and needs high over-voltage (∼1 V), which results in low conversion efficiencies when working at current densities required. At this high voltage, other chemicals will be also oxidized and this would be environmentally unacceptable for large-scale H 2 production. In past few years, there has been a tremendous surge in research on the synthesis of various metal compounds aimed at the simulating water oxidizing complex of Photosystem II. Particular attention has been given to the manganese compounds not only because manganese has been used by Nature to oxidize water but also because manganese is cheap and environmentally friendly. In this review, we focus on manganese compounds as functional models of the water oxidizing complex of Photosystem II for hydrogen production via water splitting.
KW - Hydrogen production
KW - Manganese complex
KW - Nano-sized manganese oxide
KW - Photosystem II
KW - Water oxidation
KW - Water splitting
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.02.075
DO - 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.02.075
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84860376393
SN - 0360-3199
VL - 37
SP - 8753
EP - 8764
JO - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
JF - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
IS - 10
ER -
