Designing electronic/ionic conducting membranes for artificial photosynthesis

Creators: MacFarlane, Shaune L.; Day, Brittney A.; McEleney, Kevin; Freund, Michael S.; Lewis, Nathan S.

Abstract

We discuss the figures of merit for conducting membranes in artificial photosynthetic systems and describe an electronically and ionically conducting polymer composite with attractive performance characteristics.

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© 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry. Received 24 Aug 2010; Accepted 06 Dec 2010; First published on the web 10 Jan 2011. Financial support from the following is gratefully acknowledged: The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Manitoba Research and Innovation Fund, the University of Manitoba, and made use of the Manitoba Materials and Surface Characterization Facility. This work was also supported by the NSF through a Center for Chemical Innovation, by the Stanford Global Trust and Energy Program, and by Toyota, and made use of the Molecular Materials Research Center of the Beckman Institute at Caltech, and the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech. This research was undertaken, in part, thanks to funding from the Canada Research Chairs Program. We thank Michael McDonald for the artwork in Fig. 1.

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