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Abstract
This review considers the case for using artificial photosynthesis to make solar fuels. The conceptual framework on which this idea is based is described. Photosynthesis is broken down into four partial reactions. Each one is described and progress in mimicking each of these is discussed. Finally, the current major barriers to achieving working systems based on artificial photosynthesis capable of making solar fuels are highlighted
Financial & competing interests disclosure
Tatas Brotosudarmo gratefully acknowledges financial support from the United States Department of Energy, DOE Energy Frontier Research Center (DE-SC0001035). Leroy Cronin and Richard Cogdell thanks the EPSRC for funding and Leroy Cronin for the award of Royal Society-Wolfson Foundation award. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.