An Artificial Leaf: a photo-electro-catalytic cell from earth-abundant materials for sustainable solar production of CO2-based chemicals and fuels

Project Information

A-LEAF

Grant agreement ID: 732840

DOI 10.3030/732840

Project closed

EC signature date 25 October 2016

Start date 1 January 2017

End date 30 June 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Total cost € 7 980 861,25

EU contribution € 7 980 861,25

Coordinated by

FUNDACIO PRIVADA INSTITUT CATALA D'INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA
Spain

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (4)

A-LEAF Data Management plan

ALEAF Data Management plan and updates

A-LEAF Data Management plan - Update 12 months

A-LEAF Data Management plan and updates

A-LEAF Data Management plan - Update 24 months

A-LEAF Data Management plan and updates

A-LEAF Data Management plan - Update 36 months

A-LEAF Data Management plan and updates

Other (8)

A-LEAF Communication and Outreach plan - Update 24 months

A-LEAF Communication and Outreach plan and updates

A-LEAF Dissemination and Exploitation plan - Update 12 months

A-LEAF Dissemination and Exploitation plan and updates

A-LEAF Communication and Outreach plan

ALEAF Communication and Outreach plan and updates

A-LEAF Dissemination and Exploitation plan - Update 36 months

A-LEAF Dissemination and Exploitation plan and updates

A-LEAF Dissemination and Exploitation plan

ALEAF Dissemination and Exploitation plan and updates

A-LEAF Dissemination and Exploitation plan - Update 24 months

A-LEAF Dissemination and Exploitation plan and updates

A-LEAF Communication and Outreach plan - Update 12 months

A-LEAF Communication and Outreach plan and updates

A-LEAF Communication and Outreach plan - Update 36 months

A-LEAF Communication and Outreach plan and updates

Documents, reports (4)

RP2
RP3: Final report

RP3 Final report

RP1
Project management book

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Web-Page and logo

WebPage and logo

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (37)

Atomic‐Scale Studies of Fe 3 O 4 (001) and TiO 2 (110) Surfaces Following Immersion in CO 2 ‐Acidified Water

Author(s): Francesca Mirabella, Jan Balajka, Jiri Pavelec, Markus Göbel, Florian Kraushofer, Michael Schmid, Gareth S. Parkinson, Ulrike Diebold
Published in: ChemPhysChem, Issue 21/16, 2020, Page(s) 1788-1796, ISSN 1439-4235
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202000471

Volcano Trend in Electrocatalytic CO 2 Reduction Activity over Atomically Dispersed Metal Sites on Nitrogen-Doped Carbon

Author(s): Jingkun Li, Paulina Pršlja, Tatsuya Shinagawa, Antonio José Martín Fernández, Frank Krumeich, Kateryna Artyushkova, Plamen Atanassov, Andrea Zitolo, Yecheng Zhou, Rodrigo García-Muelas, Núria López, Javier Pérez-Ramírez, Frédéric Jaouen
Published in: ACS Catalysis, Issue 9/11, 2019, Page(s) 10426-10439, ISSN 2155-5435
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b02594

Non-redox doping boosts oxygen evolution electrocatalysis on hematite

Author(s): Huu Chuong Nguyën, Felipe Andrés Garcés-Pineda, Mabel de Fez-Febré, José Ramón Galán-Mascarós, Núria López
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 11/9, 2020, Page(s) 2464-2471, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c9sc05669f

Spectroelectrochemical study of water oxidation on nickel and iron oxyhydroxide electrocatalysts

Author(s): Laia Francàs, Sacha Corby, Shababa Selim, Dongho Lee, Camilo A. Mesa, Robert Godin, Ernest Pastor, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Kyoung-Shin Choi, James R. Durrant
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 10/1, 2019, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13061-0

Versatile Nature of Oxygen Vacancies in Bismuth Vanadate Bulk and (001) Surface

Author(s): Franziska Simone Hegner, Daniel Forrer, José Ramón Galán-Mascarós, Núria López, Annabella Selloni
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Issue 10/21, 2019, Page(s) 6672-6678, ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02552

Water oxidation kinetics of nanoporous BiVO 4 photoanodes functionalised with nickel/iron oxyhydroxide electrocatalysts

Author(s): Laia Francàs, Shababa Selim, Sacha Corby, Dongho Lee, Camilo A. Mesa, Ernest Pastor, Kyoung-Shin Choi, James R. Durrant
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 12/21, 2021, Page(s) 7442-7452, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0sc06429g

Sputtered Nickel Oxide Thin Films on n-Si(100)/SiO 2 Surfaces for Photo-Electrochemical Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER): Impact of Deposition Temperature on OER Performance and on Composition before and after OER

Author(s): M. Fingerle, S. Tengeler, W. Calvet, W. Jaegermann, T. Mayer
Published in: Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Issue 167/13, 2020, Page(s) 136514, ISSN 1945-7111
Publisher: The Electrochemical Society
DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/abbcdf

Cobalt Amide Imidate Imidazolate Frameworks as Highly Active Oxygen Evolution Model Materials

Author(s): Alberto Bucci, Suvendu Sekhar Mondal, Vlad Martin-Diaconescu, Alexandr Shafir, Julio Lloret-Fillol
Published in: ACS Applied Energy Materials, Issue 2/12, 2019, Page(s) 8930-8938, ISSN 2574-0962
Publisher: ACS publications
DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.9b01977

Impact of the Synthesis Route on the Water Oxidation Kinetics of Hematite Photoanodes

Author(s): Camilo A. Mesa, Ludmilla Steier, Benjamin Moss, Laia Francàs, James E. Thorne, Michael Grätzel, James R. Durrant
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Issue 11/17, 2020, Page(s) 7285-7290, ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02004

The effect of nanoparticulate PdO co-catalysts on the faradaic and light conversion efficiency of WO 3 photoanodes for water oxidation

Author(s): Anna A. Wilson, Sacha Corby, Laia Francàs, James R. Durrant, Andreas Kafizas
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 23/2, 2021, Page(s) 1285-1291, ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0cp06124g

Push‐Pull Electronic Effects in Surface‐Active Sites Enhance Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution on Transition Metal Oxides

Author(s): Felipe Andrés Garcés‐Pineda, Huu Chuong Nguyën, Marta Blasco‐Ahicart, Miguel García‐Tecedor, Mabel Fez Febré, Peng‐Yi Tang, Jordi Arbiol, Sixto Giménez, José Ramón Galán‐Mascarós, Núria López
Published in: ChemSusChem, Issue 14/6, 2021, Page(s) 1595-1601, ISSN 1864-5631
Publisher: Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co.
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202002782

Adsorption processes on a Pd monolayer-modified Pt(111) electrode

Author(s): Xiaoting Chen, Laura P. Granda-Marulanda, Ian T. McCrum, Marc T. M. Koper
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 11/6, 2020, Page(s) 1703-1713, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c9sc05307g

Emergence of Potential-Controlled Cu-Nanocuboids and Graphene-Covered Cu-Nanocuboids under Operando CO 2 Electroreduction

Author(s): Thanh Hai Phan, Karla Banjac, Fernando P. Cometto, Federico Dattila, Rodrigo García-Muelas, Stefan J. Raaijman, Chunmiao Ye, Marc T. M. Koper, Núria López, Magalí Lingenfelder
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 21/5, 2021, Page(s) 2059-2065, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04703

Efficient Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalyst by Incorporation of Nickel into Nanoscale Dicobalt Boride

Author(s): Jona Schuch, Sebastian Klemenz, Patrick Schuldt, Anne‐Marie Zieschang, Stephanie Dolique, Paula Connor, Bernhard Kaiser, Ulrike I. Kramm, Barbara Albert, Wolfram Jaegermann
Published in: ChemCatChem, Issue 13/7, 2021, Page(s) 1772-1780, ISSN 1867-3880
Publisher: Wiley - VCH Verlag GmbH & CO. KGaA
DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202002030

An integrated photoanode based on non-critical raw materials for robust solar water splitting

Author(s): Drialys Cardenas-Morcoso, Miguel García-Tecedor, Tsvetelina Merdzhanova, Vladimir Smirnov, Friedhelm Finger, Bernhard Kaiser, Wolfram Jaegermann, Sixto Gimenez
Published in: Materials Advances, Issue 1/5, 2020, Page(s) 1202-1211, ISSN 2633-5409
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0ma00355g

Influence of Van der Waals Interactions on the Solvation Energies of Adsorbates at Pt‐Based Electrocatalysts

Author(s): Laura P. Granda‐Marulanda, Santiago Builes, Marc T. M. Koper, Federico Calle‐Vallejo
Published in: ChemPhysChem, Issue 20/22, 2019, Page(s) 2968-2972, ISSN 1439-4235
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201900512

Self-limited growth of an oxyhydroxide phase at the Fe 3 O 4 (001) surface in liquid and ambient pressure water

Author(s): Florian Kraushofer, Francesca Mirabella, Jian Xu, Jiří Pavelec, Jan Balajka, Matthias Müllner, Nikolaus Resch, Zdeněk Jakub, Jan Hulva, Matthias Meier, Michael Schmid, Ulrike Diebold, Gareth S. Parkinson
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 151/15, 2019, Page(s) 154702, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5116652

Determining the role of oxygen vacancies in the photoelectrocatalytic performance of WO 3 for water oxidation

Author(s): Sacha Corby, Laia Francàs, Andreas Kafizas, James R. Durrant
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 11/11, 2020, Page(s) 2907-2914, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c9sc06325k

Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to 1‐Butanol on Oxide‐Derived Copper

Author(s): Louisa Rui Lin Ting, Rodrigo García‐Muelas, Antonio J. Martín, Florentine L. P. Veenstra, Stuart Tze‐Jin Chen, Yujie Peng, Edwin Yu Xuan Per, Sergio Pablo‐García, Núria López, Javier Pérez‐Ramírez, Boon Siang Yeo
Published in: Angewandte Chemie, Issue 132/47, 2020, Page(s) 21258-21265, ISSN 0044-8249
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202008289

Sulfur-Modified Copper Catalysts for the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Formate

Author(s): Tatsuya Shinagawa, Gastón O. Larrazábal, Antonio J. Martín, Frank Krumeich, Javier Pérez-Ramírez
Published in: ACS Catalysis, Issue 8/2, 2018, Page(s) 837-844, ISSN 2155-5435
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b03161

Water Interaction with Sputter-Deposited Nickel Oxide on n-Si Photoanode: Cryo Photoelectron Spectroscopy on Adsorbed Water in the Frozen Electrolyte Approach

Author(s): Mathias Fingerle, Sven Tengeler, Wolfram Calvet, Thomas Mayer, Wolfram Jaegermann
Published in: Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Issue 165/4, 2018, Page(s) H3148-H3153, ISSN 0013-4651
Publisher: Electrochemical Society, Inc.
DOI: 10.1149/2.0191804jes

The Impact of Different Si Surface Terminations in the (001) n-Si/NiOx Heterojunction on the Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER) by XPS and Electrochemical Methods

Author(s): Sven Tengeler, Mathias Fingerle, Wolfram Calvet, Céline Steinert, Bernhard Kaiser, Thomas Mayer, Wolfram Jaegermann
Published in: Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Issue 165/4, 2018, Page(s) H3122-H3130, ISSN 0013-4651
Publisher: Electrochemical Society, Inc.
DOI: 10.1149/2.0151804jes

Effect of Saturating the Electrolyte with Oxygen on the Activity for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Author(s): Amanda C. Garcia, Marc T. M. Koper
Published in: ACS Catalysis, Issue 8/10, 2018, Page(s) 9359-9363, ISSN 2155-5435
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b01447

Nitride‐Derived Copper Modified with Indium as a Selective and Highly Stable Catalyst for the Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide

Author(s): Florentine LP Veenstra, Antonio J Martín, Javier Pérez-Ramírez
Published in: ChemSusChem, 2019, ISSN 1864-5631
Publisher: Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co.
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201901309

Origin of the Selective Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide to Formate by Chalcogen Modified Copper

Author(s): Rodrigo García-Muelas, Federico Dattila, Tatsuya Shinagawa, Antonio J. Martín, Javier Pérez-Ramírez, Núria López
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Issue 9/24, 2018, Page(s) 7153-7159, ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b03212

Unraveling Charge Transfer in CoFe Prussian Blue Modified BiVO 4 Photoanodes

Author(s): Benjamin Moss, Franziska Simone Hegner, Sacha Corby, Shababa Selim, Laia Francàs, Núria López, Sixto Giménez, José-Ramón Galán-Mascarós, James Robert Durrant
Published in: ACS Energy Letters, Issue 4/1, 2018, Page(s) 337-342, ISSN 2380-8195
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.8b02225

Microfabricated electrodes unravel the role of interfaces in multicomponent copper-based CO2 reduction catalysts

Author(s): Gastón O. Larrazábal, Tatsuya Shinagawa, Antonio J. Martín, Javier Pérez-Ramírez
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 9/1, 2018, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03980-9

The Impact of Different Si Surface Terminations in the (100) p-Si | n + -Si | Cu Junction with Respect to the Photo Electrochemical Performance

Author(s): Céline Steinert, Sven Tengeler, Bernhard Kaiser, Wolfram Jaegermann
Published in: Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Issue 166/5, 2019, Page(s) H3208-H3214, ISSN 0013-4651
Publisher: Electrochemical Society, Inc.
DOI: 10.1149/2.0291905jes

Oxygen Isotope Labeling Experiments Reveal Different Reaction Sites for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction on Nickel and Nickel Iron Oxides

Author(s): Seunghwa Lee, Karla Banjac, Magalí Lingenfelder, Xile Hu
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 58/30, 2019, Page(s) 10295-10299, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201903200

Building Blocks for High Performance in Electrocatalytic CO 2 Reduction: Materials, Optimization Strategies, and Device Engineering

Author(s): Gastón O. Larrazábal, Antonio J. Martín, Javier Pérez-Ramírez
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Issue 8/16, 2017, Page(s) 3933-3944, ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01380

The role of oxygen vacancies in water splitting photoanodes

Author(s): Roser Fernández-Climent, Sixto Giménez, Miguel García-Tecedor
Published in: Sustainable Energy & Fuels, Issue 4/12, 2020, Page(s) 5916-5926, ISSN 2398-4902
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0se01305f

A Semiempirical Method to Detect and Correct DFT-Based Gas-Phase Errors and Its Application in Electrocatalysis

Author(s): Laura P. Granda-Marulanda, Alejandra Rendón-Calle, Santiago Builes, Francesc Illas, Marc T. M. Koper, Federico Calle-Vallejo
Published in: ACS Catalysis, Issue 10/12, 2020, Page(s) 6900-6907, ISSN 2155-5435
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01075

Heading to Distributed Electrocatalytic Conversion of Small Abundant Molecules into Fuels, Chemicals, and Fertilizers

Author(s): Antonio José Martín, Javier Pérez-Ramírez
Published in: Joule, Issue 3/11, 2019, Page(s) 2602-2621, ISSN 2542-4351
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2019.09.007

Laser-Microstructured Copper Reveals Selectivity Patterns in the Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2

Author(s): Florentine L.P. Veenstra, Norbert Ackerl, Antonio J. Martín, Javier Pérez-Ramírez
Published in: Chem, Issue 6/7, 2020, Page(s) 1707-1722, ISSN 2451-9294
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2020.04.001

Charge accumulation kinetics in multi-redox molecular catalysts immobilised on TiO 2

Author(s): Carlota Bozal-Ginesta, Camilo A. Mesa, Annika Eisenschmidt, Laia Francàs, Ravi B. Shankar, Daniel Antón-García, Julien Warnan, Janina Willkomm, Anna Reynal, Erwin Reisner, James R. Durrant
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 12/3, 2021, Page(s) 946-959, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0sc04344c

Active and Selective Ensembles in Oxide-Derived Copper Catalysts for CO 2 Reduction

Author(s): Federico Dattila, Rodrigo Garcı́a-Muelas, Núria López
Published in: ACS Energy Letters, Issue 5/10, 2020, Page(s) 3176-3184, ISSN 2380-8195
Publisher: ACS publications
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.0c01777

Separating bulk and surface processes in NiO x electrocatalysts for water oxidation

Author(s): Sacha Corby, Miguel-García Tecedor, Sven Tengeler, Céline Steinert, Benjamin Moss, Camilo A. Mesa, Hany F. Heiba, Anna A. Wilson, Bernhard Kaiser, Wolfram Jaegermann, Laia Francàs, Sixto Gimenez, James R. Durrant
Published in: Sustainable Energy & Fuels, Issue 4/10, 2020, Page(s) 5024-5030, ISSN 2398-4902
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0se00977f