What Are the Active Species in the Photoinduced H2 Production with Terpyridyl Pt(II) Complexes? An Investigation by in Situ XAFS
What Are the Active Species in the Photoinduced H2 Production with Terpyridyl Pt(II) Complexes? An Investigation by in Situ XAFS
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DOI:
10.1002/cphc.201201093
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发表时间:
2013-04-15
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2.9
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Yamashita, Hiromi
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作者:
Martis, Martin;Mori, Kohsuke;Yamashita, Hiromi
Sunlight is the most abundant source of clean energy, and increasingly efforts have been made to convert it to a feasible form of energy, as an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels. The largest part of the solar spectrum is composed of visible light. Various ways have been devoted to utilizing this part of the spectrum, for instance in solar cells and photocatalysis. An ideal solution would be if molecular hydrogen (H2) could be produced by a direct photocatalytic water splitting reaction. Numerous approaches have been devoted to development of catalytic systems that can produce H2,[1] a fuel with a high gravimetric energy and only water release upon combustion. A widely studied system to achieve this is a threecomponent molecular-based system composed of a metal complex photosensitizer (PS)[Ru (bpy) 3 2+], an electron mediator (methyl viologen), a sacrificial electron donor (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid disodium salt, EDTA), and a hydrogen generating catalyst that is generally colloidal Pt.[2] The overall reaction is considered as a visible-light-driven reduction of protons by EDTA to molecular hydrogen through electron relay, as shown in Scheme 1a.