Construction of Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution System using Red Blood Cell Ghosts as Scaffold.

ABSTRACT: The development of efficient photocatalytic hydrogen (H₂) evolution systems is attracting considerable interest owing to the usefulness of H₂ as a renewable and clean energy source. Widely studied systems for light-driven H₂ evolution consist of multiple components, and assembling these components on a scaffold is essential to facilitate electron transfer between them, to enable high H₂ yields. Here, red blood cell ghost (RBCG) is used as a scaffold to construct a three-component system comprising [Ru(bpy)₃]²⁺ (photosensitizer), methyl viologen (MV²⁺, electron relay), ethylnediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA, sacrificial electron donor), and platinum nanoparticles (Pt NPs, catalyst). Pt NP-deposited RBCG (Pt@RBCG) and

SUBMITTER: Sakamoto T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12366250 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature