…Nat. Comm.: Researchers have combined two concepts that make the system as efficient as precious metal catalysts.
Fuel cells that work with the enzyme hydrogenase are, in principle, just as efficient as those that contain the expensive precious...
…Nature Chem.: Toward fuel cells built from renewable and abundant components - Scientists from Bochum und Mülheim report.
oxygen, protein, Nature chemistry, protect, hydrogenase, catalysis
… had in the past been subject to speculation. Dr. Martin Winkler, Dr. Jifu Duan, Professor Eckhard Hofmann and Professor Thomas Happe from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), together with colleagues from Freie Universität Berlin, traced the pathway of...
…PNAS: The heart of the biological catalyst is only introduced during the last step. The process is complex.
A team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Oxford has discovered how hydrogen-producing enzymes, called hydrogenases, are...
… W. Schuhmann and N. Plumeré publish in JACS and Angewandte Chemie.
An international research team has found a way of protecting sensitive catalysts from oxygen-caused damage. In the future, this could facilitate the creation of hydrogen fuel cells...
… Communications of 14 February 2020.
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Original publication: Huaiguang Li, Ute Münchberg, Alaa A. Oughli, Darren Buesen, Wolfgang Lubitz, Erik Freier, Nicolas Plumeré: Suppressing hydrogen peroxide...
…JACS: New findings are expected to help protect the hydrogen-producing enzymes from harmful oxygen - which is interesting for biotechnological applications.
Certain enzymes, such as hydrogen-producing hydrogenases, are unstable in the presence of...
… online on 3 September 2018.
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Original Publication: K. P. Sokol, W. E. Robinson, J. Warnan, N. Kornienko, M. M. Nowaczyk, A. Ruff, J. Z. Zhang, E. Reisner: Bias-free photoelectrochemical water splitting with photosystem II...
