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. 2019 Dec 10;5(1):232–237. doi: 10.1021/acsenergylett.9b02437

Table 1. Solar-to-Fuel Efficiencies of State-of-the-Art Tandem Devices that Employ Immobilized Earth-Abundant Molecular H2 Catalysts, a Bacterial Catalyst, and an Analogous Pt Device.

System Tandem Cella Solar-to-Fuel/% Product Ref
platinum BiVO4∥PVK|Pt 0.35 H2 (15)
synthetic Ru|OD|TiO2∥NiO|OD|Co 0.05 H2 (42)
  TaON|CoOx∥CuGaO2|OD|Co 0.0054 H2 (47)
enzymatic IO-TiO2|OD|POs-PSII∥IO-ITO|H2ase 0.14 (0.3 V bias) H2 (31)
  BiVO4∥p-Si|IO-TiO2|H2ase 0.006 H2 (25)
  BiVO4∥PVK|IO-TiO2|H2ase 1.1 H2 this work
bacterial TiO2∥Si|TiO2|S. Ovata 0.38 acetate (48)
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OD = organic dye. See Table S2 for details.