Tunable multi-electron redox polyoxometalates for decoupled water splitting driven by sunlight

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 3674 - 12
• Main Authors: Cui, Li-Ping, Zhang, Shu, Zhao, Yue, Ge, Xin-Yue, Yang, Le, Li, Ke, Feng, Liu-Bin, Li, Ren-Gui, Chen, Jia-Jia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 17.04.2025; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 119/118; 140/131; 639/301/299/890; 639/4077/909/4101/4102; 639/638/224/909/4086/4087; 639/638/439/890; Buffers; Defects; Electrode potentials; Electrolysis; Electron transfer; Energy storage; Fuels; Humanities and Social Sciences; Hydrogen production; Molecular clusters; multidisciplinary; pH effects; Photocatalysis; Polyoxometallates; Protons; Redox potential; Redox properties; Relay systems; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Solar energy; Splitting; Subsystems; Tungsten; Vanadium; Water splitting

It remains a great challenge to explore redox mediators with multi-electron, suitable redox potential, and stable pH buffer ability to simulate the natural solar-to-fuel process. In this work, we present a defect engineering strategy to design soluble multi-electron redox polyoxometalates mediators...