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Wiring of Photosystem II to Hydrogenase for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

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In natural photosynthesis, light is used for the production of chemical energy carriers to fuel biological activity. The re-engineering of natural photosynthetic pathways can provide inspiration for sustainable fuel production and insights for understanding the process itself. Here, we employ a semiartificial approach to study photobiological water splitting via a pathway unavailable to nature: the direct coupling of the water oxidation enzyme, photosystem II, to the H2 evolving enzyme, hydrogenase. Essential to this approach is the integration of the isolated enzymes into the artificial circuit of a photoelectrochemical cell. We therefore developed a tailor-made hierarchically structured indium-tin oxide electrode that gives rise to the excellent integration of both photosystem II and hydrogenase for performing the anodic and cathodic half-reactions, respectively. When connected together with the aid of an applied bias, the semiartificial cell demonstrated quantitative electron flow from photosystem II to the hydrogenase with the production of H2 and O2 being in the expected two-to-one ratio and a light-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency of 5.4% under low-intensity red-light irradiation. We thereby demonstrate efficient light-driven water splitting using a pathway inaccessible to biology and report on a widely applicable in vitro platform for the controlled coupling of enzymatic redox processes to meaningfully study photocatalytic reactions.

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hal-01179249 , version 1 (22-07-2015)

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Dirk Mersch, Chong-Yong Lee, Jenny Zhenqi Zhang, Katharina Brinkert, Juan-Carlos Fontecilla-Camps, et al.. Wiring of Photosystem II to Hydrogenase for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, 137 (26), pp.8541-8549. ⟨10.1021/jacs.5b03737⟩. ⟨hal-01179249⟩
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