Selective photoelectrochemical oxidation of glycerol to high value-added dihydroxyacetone

Dong Liu; Jin-Cheng Liu; Weizheng Cai; Jun Ma; Hong Bin Yang; Hai Xiao; Jun Li; Yujie Xiong; Yanqiang Huang; Bin Liu

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09788-5

Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Selective photoelectrochemical oxidation of glycerol to high value-added dihydroxyacetone

Dong Liu,
Jin-Cheng Liu,
Weizheng Cai,
Jun Ma,
Hong Bin Yang,
Hai Xiao,
Jun Li,
Yujie Xiong,
Yanqiang Huang,
Bin Liu

Affiliations

Dong Liu: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Jin-Cheng Liu: Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University
Weizheng Cai: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Jun Ma: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China
Hong Bin Yang: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Hai Xiao: Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University
Jun Li: Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University
Yujie Xiong: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China
Yanqiang Huang: State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bin Liu: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09788-5
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The selective conversion of inexpensive precursors to high-value chemicals presents valuable academic and industrial consequences. Here, the authors show bismuth vanadate photoanodes to utilize light and photoelectrochemically oxidize glycerol selectively to valuable industrial products.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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