Iron-Doped Carbon Nitride-Type Polymers as Homogeneous Organocatalysts for Visible Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 617-624

  Gao, Lin Feng ^a   Wen, Ting ^a   Xu, Jing Yin ^a   Zhai, Xin Ping ^a   Zhao, Min ^a   Hu, Guo Wen ^a   Chen, Peng ^b   Wang, Qiang ^a   Zhang, Hao Li ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon nitride; hydrogen evolution; laser photolysis; two dimensional; visible light driven photocatalysis

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONS; HYDROGEN; IRON; LIGHT; NITRIDES; PHOTOLYSIS; POLYMERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRON TRANSFER DYNAMICS; ELECTRON TRANSFER PROCESS; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; LASER PHOTOLYSIS; SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS; VISIBLE-LIGHT-DRIVEN;

CARBON NITRIDE;

EID: 84954450976     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b09684     Document Type: Article

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