title: Recent advances in ruthenium complex-based light-driven water oxidation catalysts.
abstract: The light driven splitting of water is one of the most attractive approaches for direct conversion of solar energy into chemical energy in the future. Ruthenium complexes as the water oxidation catalysts (WOCs) and light sensitizers have attracted increasing attention, and have made a great progress. This mini-review highlights recent progress on ruthenium complex-based photochemical and photoelectrochemical water oxidation catalysts. The recent representative examples of these ruthenium complexes that are in homogeneous solution or immobilized on solid electrodes, are surveyed. In particular, special attention has been paid on the supramolecular dyads with photosensitizer and WOC being covalently hold together, and grafted onto the solid electrode.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Materials and College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan, China.
authors.forename: Long-Xin
authors.initials: LX
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.affiliation: Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Materials and College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
authors.forename: Ting-Ting
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.affiliation: Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Materials and College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Materials and College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. Electronic address: kzwang@bnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Ke-Zhi
authors.initials: KZ
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D012428:Ruthenium / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D013472:Sunlight; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014867:Water; D012428:Ruthenium
keywords: Photoelectrochemical property; Ruthenium; Solar energy; Water oxidation catalyst