Authors
Giorgio Caserta, Souvik Roy, Mohamed Atta, Vincent Artero, Marc Fontecave
Publication date
2015/4/1
Source
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
Volume
25
Pages
36-47
Publisher
Elsevier Current Trends
Description
Highlights
- Active sites of hydrogenases can be synthetically imitated to produce efficient catalysts.
- Maturation and activation of hydrogenases can be achieved with the closest active site mimics.
- Synthetic chemistry combined with protein chemistry can generate functional artificial hydrogenases.
- Non-biological polymers also provide an appropriate environment for the assembly of artificial hydrogenases.
There is an urgent need for cheap, abundant and efficient catalysts as an alternative to platinum for hydrogen production and oxidation in (photo) electrolyzers and fuel cells. Hydrogenases are attractive solutions. These enzymes use exclusively nickel and iron in their active sites and function with high catalytic rates at the thermodynamic equilibrium. As an alternative, a number of biomimetic and bioinspired catalysts for H 2 production and/or uptake, based on Ni, Fe and Co, have been developed and shown to display …
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G Caserta, S Roy, M Atta, V Artero, M Fontecave - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2015