Working the other way around: Photocatalytic water oxidation triggered by reductive quenching of the photoexcited chromophore

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2371-2379

  Natali, Mirco ^a   Puntoriero, Fausto ^b   Chiorboli, Claudio ^c   La Ganga, Giuseppina ^b   Sartorel, Andrea ^d   Bonchio, Marcella ^d   Campagna, Sebastiano ^b   Scandola, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; CATALYSTS; CHROMOPHORES; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; OXIDATION; POLYOXOMETALATES; QUENCHING;

CHEMICAL INTERACTIONS; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; LIGHT-HARVESTING; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOINDUCED PROCESS; PHOTOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION; PICOSECOND TIME SCALE; WATER SPLITTING;

PHOTOSENSITIZERS;

EID: 84922341573     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp512541s     Document Type: Article

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