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Oxidizing water two ways

Nature Chemistry volume 3, pages 757–758 (2011)Cite this article

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Iridium complexes can show impressive homogeneous water-oxidation activity, but they can also act as precursors to heterogeneous catalysts. Understanding exactly what the catalytically active species is can be difficult, but now a technique has been applied that reveals the true nature of a catalyst, helping to remove this ambiguity.

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Figure 1: Schematic of a dye-sensitized photoelectrosynthesis cell.

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Meyer, T. Oxidizing water two ways. Nature Chem 3, 757–758 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1161

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