TY - JOUR
T1 - Photosynthetic hydrogen production
AU - Allakhverdiev, Suleyman I.
AU - Thavasi, Velmurugan
AU - Kreslavski, Vladimir D.
AU - Zharmukhamedov, Sergey K.
AU - Klimov, Vyacheslav V.
AU - Ramakrishna, Seeram
AU - Los, Dmitry A.
AU - Mimuro, Mamoru
AU - Nishihara, Hiroshi
AU - Carpentier, Robert
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported, in part, by grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Nos. 08-04-00241 , 09-04-01074 , 09-04-91219-CT ), from the Molecular and Cell Biology Program of the Russian Academy of Sciences; by Japanes Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan, to SIA; by a Grant-in-Aid for Creative Scientific Research (No. 17GS0314) from the JSPS and by Scientific Research on Priority Areas “Comparative Genomics” (Nos: 17018022 and 18017016) from the Ministry of Education, Sports, Culture, Science, and Technology, Japan, to MM; VT and SR acknowledge the NUSNNI, Singapore. RC was supported by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada .
PY - 2010/9
Y1 - 2010/9
N2 - Among various technologies for hydrogen production, the use of oxygenic natural photosynthesis has a great potential as can use clean and cheap sources-water and solar energy. In oxygenic photosynthetic microorganisms electrons and protons produced from water and redirected by the photosynthetic electron-transport chain via ferredoxin to the hydrogen-producing enzymes hydrogenase or nitrogenase. By these enzymes, e- and H+ recombine and form molecular hydrogen. Hydrogenase activity can be very high but is extremely sensitive to the photosynthetically evolved O2 that leads to reduced and unstable H2 production. However, presently, several approaches are developed to improve the energetic efficiency to generate H2. This review examines the main available pathways to improve the photosynthetic H2 production.
AB - Among various technologies for hydrogen production, the use of oxygenic natural photosynthesis has a great potential as can use clean and cheap sources-water and solar energy. In oxygenic photosynthetic microorganisms electrons and protons produced from water and redirected by the photosynthetic electron-transport chain via ferredoxin to the hydrogen-producing enzymes hydrogenase or nitrogenase. By these enzymes, e- and H+ recombine and form molecular hydrogen. Hydrogenase activity can be very high but is extremely sensitive to the photosynthetically evolved O2 that leads to reduced and unstable H2 production. However, presently, several approaches are developed to improve the energetic efficiency to generate H2. This review examines the main available pathways to improve the photosynthetic H2 production.
KW - Clean energy
KW - Hydrogen photoproduction
KW - Hydrogenase
KW - Nitrogenase
KW - Photosynthetic organisms
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2010.07.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2010.07.002
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:78649686683
SN - 1389-5567
VL - 11
SP - 101
EP - 113
JO - Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews
JF - Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews
IS - 2-3
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