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Guan Zhang1, Chengsheng Ni, Xiubing Huang
1School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9ST, UK. gz23@st-andrews.ac.uk jtsi@st-andrews.ac.uk.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 15, 2015
Abstract:
Photocatalytic conversion of cellulose to sugars and carbon dioxide with simultaneous production of hydrogen assisted by cellulose decomposition under UV or solar light irradiation was achieved upon immobilization of cellulose onto a TiO2 photocatalyst. This approach enables production of hydrogen from water without using valuable sacrificial agents, and provides the possibility for recovering sugars as liquid fuels.
