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Sushant Kumar Behera1, Pritam Deb1, Arghya Ghosh1

  • 1Advanced Functional Material Laboratory (AFML), Department of Physics, Tezpur University (Central University), Tezpur, Assam-784028, India. pdeb@tezu.ernet.in.

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics : PCCP
|August 9, 2016
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We designed novel metalloprotein hybrid catalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution reactions (HER). Silver ions integrated into bacteriorhodopsin enhance catalytic activity by optimizing interfacial electronic structure for water splitting.

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