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 |
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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) |
OD = organic dye. See Table S2 for details.