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Soleimani M, Pourfath M. A comprehensive investigation of the plasmonic-photocatalytic properties of gold nanoparticles for CO 2 conversion to chemicals. NANOSCALE 2023; 15:7051-7067. [PMID: 36974912 DOI: 10.1039/d3nr00566f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
Understanding the interactions between plasmonic gold (Au) nanoparticles and the adsorbate is essential for photocatalytic and plasmonic applications. However, it is often challenging to identify a specific reaction mechanism in the ground state and to explore the optical properties in the excited states because of the complicated pathways of carriers. In this study, photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) to C1 products (for example, CO and CH4) on the Au(111) nanoparticle (NP) surface was studied based on reaction pathway analysis, adsorbate reactivity, and its ability to stabilize or deactivate the surface. The calculated reaction Gibbs free energies and activation barriers revealed that the first step in CO reduction via a direct hydrogen transfer mechanism on Au(111) is the formation of formyl (*CHO) instead of hydroxymethylidyne (*COH). Furthermore, the size enhanced and symmetry sensitive optical responses of cuboctahedral Au(111) NPs on localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) were investigated by using time-dependent DFT (TDDFT) calculations. Although near field enhancement around cuboctahedral Au(111) NPs is only weakly dependent on the morphology of NPs, it was observed that corner sites stabilize *C-species to drive the CO2 reduction to CO. The density of active surface states interacting with the adsorbate states near the Fermi level gradually decreases from the (111) on-top site toward the corner site of the Au(111) NP-CO system, which strongly affects the molecule's binding on catalytic sites and, in particular, electronic excitation. Finally, the spatial distribution of the charge oscillations was determined as a guide for the fabrication of Au NPs with an optimal LSPR response.
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- Maryam Soleimani
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran 14395-515, Iran.
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran 14395-515, Iran.
- Institute for Microelectronics/E360, TU Wien, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
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Pei Z, Mao Y, Shao Y, Liang W. Analytic high-order energy derivatives for metal nanoparticle-mediated infrared and Raman scattering spectra within the framework of quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics model with induced charges and dipoles. J Chem Phys 2022; 157:164110. [PMID: 36319412 PMCID: PMC9616608 DOI: 10.1063/5.0118205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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This work is devoted to deriving and implementing analytic second- and third-order energy derivatives with respect to the nuclear coordinates and external electric field within the framework of the hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics method with induced charges and dipoles (QM/DIM). Using these analytic energy derivatives, one can efficiently compute the harmonic vibrational frequencies, infrared (IR) and Raman scattering (RS) spectra of the molecule in the proximity of noble metal clusters/nanoparticles. The validity and accuracy of these analytic implementations are demonstrated by the comparison of results obtained by the finite-difference method and the analytic approaches and by the full QM and QM/DIM calculations. The complexes formed by pyridine and two sizes of gold clusters (Au18 and Au32) at varying intersystem distances of 3, 4, and 5 Å are used as the test systems, and Raman spectra of 4,4'-bipyridine in the proximity of Au2057 and Ag2057 metal nanoparticles (MNP) are calculated by the QM/DIM method and compared with experimental results as well. We find that the QM/DIM model can well reproduce the IR spectra obtained from full QM calculations for all the configurations, while although it properly enhances some of the vibrational modes, it artificially overestimates RS spectral intensities of several modes for the systems with very short intersystem distance. We show that this could be improved, however, by incorporating the hyperpolarizability of the gold metal cluster in the evaluation of RS intensities. Additionally, we address the potential impact of charge migration between the adsorbate and MNPs.
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- Zheng Pei
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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Chen J, Zhang X, Wu D. Dissociation reactions of hydrogen molecules at active sites on gold clusters: A
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study. J CHIN CHEM SOC-TAIP 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/jccs.202200392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Jia‐Li Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Xiamen University Xiamen China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Xiamen University Xiamen China
- Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Media and Reactions, Ministry of Education, Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Province for Green Manufacturing of Fine Chemicals, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Henan Normal University Xinxiang China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Xiamen University Xiamen China
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Zhang XG, Zhong JH. Correlating the orbital overlap area and vibrational frequency shift of an isocyanide moiety adsorbed on Pt and Pd covered Au(111) surfaces. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:23301-23308. [PMID: 36165277 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp03444a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Orbital interactions between adsorbed molecules and the underlying metal surfaces play critical roles in a wide range of surface and interfacial processes. Establishing a correlation between an experimental observable (e.g., vibrational frequency shift of the adsorbed molecule) and the orbital interactions is of vital importance. Herein, theoretical calculations are used to investigate the vibrational frequency shift of phenyl isocyanide molecules as a probe molecule adsorbed on mono- and bi-layer Pt and Pd covered Au(111) surfaces and Pd2Au4 and Pt2Au4 clusters. By analyzing the density of states (DOS) of the adsorption system, we show that the orbital overlap area of d electronic DOS with a molecular σ or π* orbital, particularly their ratio (Rd-σ/d-π*), can be a meaningful descriptor to explain the frequency shift of the CN moiety. This hypothesis has been verified by simulations for phenyl isocyanide with electron donating NH2- and withdrawing CF3- substituent groups, formonitrile and carbon monoxide. Quasi-linear dependence of the frequency shift on Rd-σ/d-π* is observed for both the red and blue shift regions. Our findings build up on previous notions of electronic interactions, which will provide a more quantitative and solid footing to understand and analyze the frequency shift of adsorbed molecules on metal surfaces and the related electronic interactions and catalytic properties.
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- Xia-Guang Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Media and Reactions, Ministry of Education, Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Province for Green Manufacturing of Fine Chemicals, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, China.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
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Shangguan W, Liu Q, Wang Y, Sun N, Liu Y, Zhao R, Li Y, Wang C, Zhao J. Molecular-level insight into photocatalytic CO 2 reduction with H 2O over Au nanoparticles by interband transitions. Nat Commun 2022; 13:3894. [PMID: 35794088 PMCID: PMC9259601 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31474-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Achieving CO2 reduction with H2O on metal photocatalysts and understanding the corresponding mechanisms at the molecular level are challenging. Herein, we report that quantum-sized Au nanoparticles can photocatalytically reduce CO2 to CO with the help of H2O by electron-hole pairs mainly originating from interband transitions. Notably, the Au photocatalyst shows a CO production rate of 4.73 mmol g-1 h-1 (~100% selectivity), ~2.5 times the rate during CO2 reduction with H2 under the same experimental conditions, under low-intensity irradiation at 420 nm. Theoretical and experimental studies reveal that the increased activity is induced by surface Au-O species formed from H2O decomposition, which synchronously optimizes the rate-determining steps in the CO2 reduction and H2O oxidation reactions, lowers the energy barriers for the *CO desorption and *OOH formation, and facilitates CO and O2 production. Our findings provide an in-depth mechanistic understanding for designing active metal photocatalysts for efficient CO2 reduction with H2O.
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- Wenchao Shangguan
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710021, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China.
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710021, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Advanced Functional Material Manufacturing of Ministry of Education, School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Advanced Functional Material Manufacturing of Ministry of Education, School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710021, China.
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710021, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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Chen E, Qiu M, Zhang Y, He L, Sun Y, Zheng H, Wu X, Zhang J, Lin Q. Energy Band Alignment and Redox‐Active Sites in Metalloporphyrin‐Spaced Metal‐Catechol Frameworks for Enhanced CO
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Photoreduction. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202111622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Er‐Xia Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou Fujian 350002 P. R. China
- Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China Fuzhou Fujian 350108 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou Fujian 350002 P. R. China
- College of Chemistry Jiangxi Agricultural University Nanchang Jiangxi 330045 P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry Fuzhou University Fuzhou Fujian 350116 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou Fujian 350002 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou Fujian 350002 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou Fujian 350002 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou Fujian 350002 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou Fujian 350002 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou Fujian 350002 P. R. China
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Zhang Y, Yan L, Guan M, Chen D, Xu Z, Guo H, Hu S, Zhang S, Liu X, Guo Z, Li S, Meng S. Indirect to Direct Charge Transfer Transition in Plasmon-Enabled CO 2 Photoreduction. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2022; 9:e2102978. [PMID: 34766740 PMCID: PMC8805563 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202102978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2021] [Revised: 10/11/2021] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Understanding hot carrier dynamics between plasmonic nanomaterials and its adsorbate is of great importance for plasmon-enhanced photoelectronic processes such as photocatalysis, optical sensing and spectroscopic analysis. However, it is often challenging to identify specific dominant mechanisms for a given process because of the complex pathways and ultrafast interactive dynamics of the photoelectrons. Here, using CO2 reduction as an example, the underlying mechanisms of plasmon-driven catalysis at the single-molecule level using time-dependent density functional theory calculations is clearly probed. The CO2 molecule adsorbed on two typical nanoclusters, Ag20 and Ag147 , is photoreduced by optically excited plasmon, accompanied by the excitation of asymmetric stretching and bending modes of CO2 . A nonlinear relationship has been identified between laser intensity and reaction rate, demonstrating a synergic interplay and transition from indirect hot-electron transfer to direct charge transfer, enacted by strong localized surface plasmons. These findings offer new insights for CO2 photoreduction and for the design of effective pathways toward highly efficient plasmon-mediated photocatalysis.
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- Yimin Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Material PhysicsMinistry of EducationSchool of Physics and MicroelectronicsZhengzhou UniversityZhengzhou450001P. R. China
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of PhysicsChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190P. R. China
- School of Physical SciencesUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190P. R. China
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- School of Physics and Information TechnologyShaanxi Normal UniversityXi'an710119P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of PhysicsChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190P. R. China
- School of Physical SciencesUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of PhysicsChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190P. R. China
- School of Physical SciencesUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Material PhysicsMinistry of EducationSchool of Physics and MicroelectronicsZhengzhou UniversityZhengzhou450001P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Material PhysicsMinistry of EducationSchool of Physics and MicroelectronicsZhengzhou UniversityZhengzhou450001P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of PhysicsChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190P. R. China
- School of Physical SciencesUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of PhysicsChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190P. R. China
- School of Physical SciencesUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of PhysicsChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190P. R. China
- School of Physical SciencesUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190P. R. China
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- Departments of Chemistry and Mechanical EngineeringThe University of Hong KongHong Kong999077P. R. China
- HKU Zhejiang Institute of Research and InnovationThe University of Hong KongHangzhou311305P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Material PhysicsMinistry of EducationSchool of Physics and MicroelectronicsZhengzhou UniversityZhengzhou450001P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of PhysicsChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190P. R. China
- School of Physical SciencesUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190P. R. China
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Chen EX, Qiu M, Zhang YF, He L, Sun YY, Zheng HL, Wu X, Zhang J, Lin Q. Energy Band Alignment and Redox-Active Sites in Metalloporphyrin-Spaced Metal-Catechol Frameworks for Enhanced CO 2 Photoreduction. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 61:e202111622. [PMID: 34652055 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202111622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2021] [Revised: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Two new chemically stable metalloporphyrin-bridged metal-catechol frameworks, InTCP-Co and FeTCP-Co, were constructed to achieve artificial photosynthesis without additional sacrificial agents and photosensitizers. The CO2 photoreduction rate over FeTCP-Co considerably exceeds that obtained over InTCP-Co, and the incorporation of uncoordinated hydroxyl groups, associated with catechol, into the network further promotes the photocatalytic activity. The iron-oxo coordination chain assists energy band alignment and provides a redox-active site, and the uncoordinated hydroxyl group contributes to the visible-light absorptance, charge-carrier transfer, and CO2 -scaffold affinity. With a formic acid selectivity of 97.8 %, FeTCP-OH-Co affords CO2 photoconversion with a reaction rate 4.3 and 15.7 times higher than those of FeTCP- Co and InTCP-Co, respectively. These findings are also consistent with the spectroscopic study and DFT calculation.
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- Er-Xia Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, P. R. China.,Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350108, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, P. R. China.,College of Chemistry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330045, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350116, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, P. R. China
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