Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Photobase effect for just-in-time delivery in photocatalytic hydrogen generation

  • Jiawen Fang,
  • Tushar Debnath,
  • Santanu Bhattacharyya,
  • Markus Döblinger,
  • Jochen Feldmann,
  • Jacek K. Stolarczyk

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18583-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Efficient photocatalytic hydrogen generation relies on highly choreographed delivery of protons and electrons to the reaction site such that they arrive just in time. Here, authors show that proton transport can be controlled by light with the photobase effect to increase H2 generation rate.