Vincent Artero

TL;DR: Cobalt has emerged in the past five years as the most versatile non-noble metal for the development of synthetic H( 2)- and O(2)-evolving catalysts, which can be further coupled with photosensitizers to generate photocatalytic systems for light-induced hydrogen evolution from water.

TL;DR: It is shown that the covalent attachment of a nickel bisdiphosphine–based mimic of the active site of hydrogenase enzymes onto multiwalled carbon nanotubes results in a high–surface area cathode material with high catalytic activity under the strongly acidic conditions required in proton exchange membrane technology.

TL;DR: It is found that a robust nanoparticulate electrocatalytic material, H(2-CoCat, can be electrochemically prepared from cobalt salts in a phosphate buffer and can be converted on anodic equilibration into the previously described amorphous cobalt oxide film (O(2)-CoCat or CoPi) catalysing O(2) evolution.

TL;DR: It is shown that three synthetic mimics (containing different bridging dithiolate ligands) can be loaded onto bacterial Thermotoga maritima HydF and then transferred to apo-HydA1, one of the hydrogenases of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii algae, providing new mechanistic and structural insight into hydrogenase maturation.

TL;DR: It is shown that HER-active a-MoSx, prepared either as nanoparticles or as films, is a molecular-based coordination polymer consisting of discrete [Mo3S13](2-) building blocks that provides a basis for revisiting the mechanism of a- MoSx catalytic activity, as well as explaining some of its special properties such as reductive activation and corrosion.