Issue 84, 2014
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Chemical Communications

Distance dependent charge separation and recombination in semiconductor/molecular catalyst systems for water splitting†

Anna Reynal,*a   Janina Willkomm,b   Nicoleta M. Muresan,b   Fezile Lakadamyali,b   Miquel Planells,a   Erwin Reisner*b  and  James R. Durrant*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
E-mail: a.reynal@imperial.ac.uk, j.durrant@imperial.ac.uk

b Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable SynGas, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
E-mail: reisner@ch.cam.ac.uk

Abstract

The photoinduced reduction of three Co electrocatalysts immobilised on TiO2 is 104 times faster than the reverse charge recombination. Both processes show an exponential dependence on the distance between the semiconductor and the catalytic core.

Graphical abstract: Distance dependent charge separation and recombination in semiconductor/molecular catalyst systems for water splitting

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC05143B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
04 Jul 2014
Accepted
25 Aug 2014
First published
05 Sep 2014
This article is Open Access
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Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 12768-12771

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Distance dependent charge separation and recombination in semiconductor/molecular catalyst systems for water splitting

A. Reynal, J. Willkomm, N. M. Muresan, F. Lakadamyali, M. Planells, E. Reisner and J. R. Durrant, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 12768 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC05143B

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