The contemporary demand to generate fuels from solar energy has stimulated intense effort to develop water splitting catalysts that can be coupled to light-absorbing materials. Cobalt oxido catalyst (Co-OECs) films deposited from buffered CoII solutions have emerged as arguably the most studied class of heterogeneous oxygen evolution catalysts. The interest in these materials stems from their formation by self-assembly, their self-healing properties, and their promising catalytic activity under a variety of conditions. The structure and function of these catalysts are reviewed here together with studies of molecular Co-O cluster compounds, which have proven invaluable in elucidating the chemistry of the Co-OECs.
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Bediako, D. K., Ullman, A. M., & Nocera, D. G. (2015). Catalytic oxygen evolution by cobalt oxido thin films. In Topics in Current Chemistry (Vol. 371, pp. 173–214). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/128_2015_649
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