Selective photoelectrochemical oxidation of glycerol to high value-added dihydroxyacetone

Nature Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Liu, Dong ^a   Liu, Jin Cheng ^b   Cai, Weizheng ^a   Ma, Jun ^c   Yang, Hong Bin ^a,d   Xiao, Hai ^b   Li, Jun ^b   Xiong, Yujie ^c   Huang, Yanqiang ^e   Liu, Bin ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b Tsinghua University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d SUZHOU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROXYACETONE; GLYCEROL;

BIOFUEL; BYPRODUCT; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; OXIDATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIFFUSION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTROSPRAY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FLOW KINETICS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ILLUMINATION; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ION TRAP MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION; PH; PHOTOOXIDATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELECTIVITY INDEX; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 85064576087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09788-5     Document Type: Article

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