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Published on: August 23, 2012
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Distance dependent charge separation and recombination in semiconductor/molecular catalyst systems for water
Anna Reynal1, Janina Willkomm, Nicoleta M Muresan
1Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK. a.reynal@imperial.ac.uk j.durrant@imperial.ac.uk.
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The photoinduced reduction of three Co electrocatalysts immobilised on TiO2 is 10(4) times faster than the reverse charge recombination. Both processes show an exponential dependence on the distance between the semiconductor and the catalytic core.
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