{"id":208675,"date":"2025-03-14T09:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/artificial-enzyme-splits-water-more-efficiently"},"modified":"2025-03-14T09:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:07:56","slug":"artificial-enzyme-splits-water-more-efficiently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/artificial-enzyme-splits-water-more-efficiently","title":{"rendered":"Artificial enzyme splits water more efficiently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-enzyme-splits-water-more-efficiently2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mankind is facing a central challenge: It must manage the transition to a sustainable and carbon dioxide-neutral energy economy.<\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen is considered a promising alternative to fossil fuels. It can be produced from water using electricity. If the electricity comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/renewable+sources\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">renewable sources<\/a>, it is called green <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hydrogen\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydrogen<\/a>. But it would be even more sustainable if hydrogen could be produced directly with the energy of sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>In nature, light-driven water splitting takes place during photosynthesis in plants. Plants use a complex molecular apparatus for this, the so-called photosystem II. Mimicking its active center is a promising strategy for realizing the sustainable production of hydrogen. A team led by Professor Frank W\u00fcrthner at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry at Julius-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t W\u00fcrzburg (JMU) is working on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mankind is facing a central challenge: It must manage the transition to a sustainable and carbon dioxide-neutral energy economy. Hydrogen is considered a promising alternative to fossil fuels. It can be produced from water using electricity. If the electricity comes from renewable sources, it is called green hydrogen. But it would be even more sustainable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,39,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-economics","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}