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Published on: October 5, 2019
Anchoring Ir(iii) complex on macroscopic polymer substrate as highly durable photosensitizer for photocatalytic
Yue Wang1, Chunbai Zheng2, Meihua Liu2
1CAS Key Laboratory of High-Performance Synthetic Rubber and its Composite Materials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China. jgao@ciac.ac.cn yfzhang@ciac.ac.cn pydeng@ciac.ac.cn and University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
Abstract:
A novel photosensitizer (PS) was developed by anchoring an Ir(iii) complex on a macroscopic polymer substrate to prevent ligand dissociation of the PS, resulting in a long duration of over 730 h in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. This study paves the way for designing new Ir(iii) PSs and exploring the inactivation mechanism of PSs.
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