Efficient Light-Driven Oxidation of Alcohols Using an Organic Chromophore-Catalyst Assembly Anchored to TiO2

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 9125-9133

  Pho, Toan V ^a   Sheridan, Matthew V ^b   Morseth, Zachary A ^b   Sherman, Benjamin D ^b   Meyer, Thomas J ^b   Papanikolas, John M ^b   Schanze, Kirk S ^c   Reynolds, John R ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

C H activation; dye sensitized photoelectrosynthesis cell; dye sensitized solar cell; organic alcohol oxidation; solar fuels

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; ALCOHOL FUELS; CATALYSTS; CHROMOPHORES; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGANDS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METAL COMPLEXES; OXIDATION; PHENOLS; SOLUTIONS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ALCOHOL OXIDATION; C-H ACTIVATION; DYE SENSITIZED; HYDROQUINONE OXIDATION; ORGANIC CHROMOPHORES; OXIDATION OF ALCOHOLS; PHOSPHONIC ACID GROUPS; SOLAR FUELS;

RUTHENIUM;

EID: 84964860774     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b00932     Document Type: Article

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