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Analytical/Catalysis/Energy/Related/Inorganic/Materials/Physical/Chemical Physics

Daniel G. Nocera is the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University. He is widely recognized in the world as a leading researcher in renewable energy. His group has pioneered studies of the basic mechanisms of energy conversion in biology and chemistry with a particular focus on multielectron transformations and the coupling of protons to electron transfer (i.e., proton-coupled electron transfer). A recent focus in the group has been to exploit this mechanistic knowledge for the generation of solar fuels. His group has recently accomplished a solar fuels process that captures many of the elements of photosynthesis and he has now translated this science to produce the artificial leaf. This discovery sets the stage for a storage mechanism for the distributed, deployment of solar energy. Other areas of interest in the group include the development of proton-coupled electron transfer and its application to radical enzymology, the development of new cancer therapies by creating nanocrystal chemosensors for metabolic tumor profiling, the creation of spin frustrated materials, which has culminated in the discovery of the quantum spin liquid, and the invention of molecular tagging velocimetry technique for the measurement of highly turbulent fluid flows.

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Tandem redox mediator/Ni(II) trihalide complex photocycle for hydrogen evolution from HCl (Chem. Sci.) Ultrafast Photoinduced Electron Transfer from Peroxide Dianion (J. Phys. Chem. B) Efficient solar-to-fuels production from a hybrid microbial–water-splitting catalyst system (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.) Photophysical Properties of β-Substituted Free-Base Corroles (Inorg. Chem.) Metabolic Tumor Profiling with pH, Oxygen, and Glucose Chemosensors on a Quantum Dot Scaffold (Inorg. Chem.) Spectroscopic Studies of Nanoparticulate Thin Films of a Cobalt-Based Oxygen Evolution Catalyst (J. Phys. Chem. C) Nucleation and Growth Mechanisms of an Electrodeposited Manganese Oxide Oxygen Evolution Catalyst (J. Phys. Chem. C) A Functionally Stable Manganese Oxide Oxygen Evolution Catalyst in Acid (J. Am. Chem. Soc.) Templated assembly of photoswitches significantly increases the energy-storage capacity of solar thermal fuels (Nat. Chem.) Electron-Transfer Studies of a Peroxide Dianion (Inorg. Chem.) Post-Synthetic Modification of Hangman Porphyrins Synthesized on the Gram Scale (ChemSusChem) Electrocatalytic H$$_2$$ Evolution by Proton-Gated Hangman Iron Porphyrins (Organometallics) Halide-Bridged Binuclear HX-Splitting Catalysts (Inorg. Chem.) Ten-percent solar-to-fuel conversion with nonprecious materials (PNAS) Tandem redox mediator/Ni(II) trihalide complex photocycle for hydrogen evolution from HCl (Chem. Sci.) Photocrystallographic Observation of Halide-Bridged Intermediates in Halogen Photoeliminations (J. Am. Chem. Soc.) Role of pendant proton relays and proton-coupled electron transfer on the hydrogen evolution reaction by nickel hangman porphyrins (PNAS) Theoretical Analysis of Cobalt Hangman Porphyrins: Ligand Dearomatization and Mechanistic Implications for Hydrogen Evolution (ACS Catal.) Kinetics of Hydrogen Atom Abstraction from Substrate by an Active Site Thiyl Radical in Ribonucleotide Reductase (J. Am. Chem. Soc.) Water Oxidation Catalysis by Co(II) Impurities in $$ce{Co(III)_4O_4}$$ Cubanes (J. Am. Chem. Soc.) Proton-coupled electron transfer chemistry of hangman macrocycles: Hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions (J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines)