Clean‐burning, renewable H2 fuel can in principl

Clean‐burning, renewable H2 fuel can in principle be generated effectively through solar‐driven proton reduction coupled to water oxidation as an abundant source of electrons.1 Alternatively, this reaction can be undertaken through the oxidation of organic species, either in the form of biomass‐derived substrates, such as EtOH, MeOH, glucose or lignocellulose,2-4 or through selective organic oxidation reactions to generate higher‐value products.5 Semiconductor particles are particularly well‐suited to perform the underlying reactions behind artificial photosynthesis and as such, rapid light‐driven H2 evolution has been reported for numerous metal oxide, sulfide, selenide and nitride‐based semiconductors.6, 7
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