DOI: 10.1126/science.1179773. From Hydrogenases to Noble Metal–Free Catalytic Nanomaterials for H <sub>2</sub> Production and Uptake

From Hydrogenases to Noble Metal–Free Catalytic Nanomaterials for H 2 Production and Uptake

10.1126/science.1179773

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Abstract

Electrolysis at Nickel One drawback of solar and wind power is the need for an efficient storage system to release accumulated energy when neither source is readily available (during still nights, for example). Hydrogen derived from electrolysis of water is potentially a useful medium for this purpose, but catalyzing the interconversion efficiently at large scale would currently require a substantial amount of the scarce precious metal platinum. An alternative approach would be to mimic natural enzymatic reactions, which accomplish the interconversion using hydrogenases that incorporate the more abundant metals iron and nickel. In this vein, Le Goff et al. (p. 1384 ; see the Perspective by Hambourger and Moore ) have lightly modified a hydrogenase-inspired nickel complex in order to append it to a conductive carbon nanotube support. The resulting hybrid material shows promising catalytic efficiency for reversible aqueous electrolysis in a standard apparatus.

Bibliography

Le Goff, A., Artero, V., Jousselme, B., Tran, P. D., Guillet, N., MÃ©tayÃ©, R., Fihri, A., Palacin, S., & Fontecave, M. (2009). From Hydrogenases to Noble MetalâFree Catalytic Nanomaterials for H 2 Production and Uptake. Science, 326(5958), 1384â1387.

Authors 9

Alan Le Goff (first)
Vincent Artero (additional)
Bruno Jousselme (additional)
Phong Dinh Tran (additional)
Nicolas Guillet (additional)
Romain Métayé (additional)
Aziz Fihri (additional)
Serge Palacin (additional)
Marc Fontecave (additional)

References 26 Referenced 906

Dates

Type	When
Created	15 years, 8 months ago (Dec. 3, 2009, 7:15 p.m.)
Deposited	1 year, 7 months ago (Jan. 10, 2024, 3:30 a.m.)
Indexed	9 hours, 46 minutes ago (Aug. 21, 2025, 2:31 p.m.)
Issued	15 years, 8 months ago (Dec. 4, 2009)
Published	15 years, 8 months ago (Dec. 4, 2009)
Published Print	15 years, 8 months ago (Dec. 4, 2009)

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BibTeX

@article{Le_Goff_2009, title={From Hydrogenases to Noble Metal–Free Catalytic Nanomaterials for H 2 Production and Uptake}, volume={326}, ISSN={1095-9203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1179773}, DOI={10.1126/science.1179773}, number={5958}, journal={Science}, publisher={American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)}, author={Le Goff, Alan and Artero, Vincent and Jousselme, Bruno and Tran, Phong Dinh and Guillet, Nicolas and Métayé, Romain and Fihri, Aziz and Palacin, Serge and Fontecave, Marc}, year={2009}, month=dec, pages={1384–1387} }

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