A photoelectrochemical device for visible light driven water splitting by a molecular ruthenium catalyst assembled on dye-sensitized nanostructured TiO2

Lin Li; Lele Duan; Yunhua Xu; Mikhail Gorlov; Anders Hagfeldt; Licheng Sun

doi:10.1039/C0CC01828G

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A photoelectrochemical device for visible light driven water splitting by a molecular ruthenium catalyst assembled on dye-sensitized nanostructured TiO₂†

Lin Li,^a Lele Duan,^a Yunhua Xu,^a Mikhail Gorlov,^a Anders Hagfeldt^ab and Licheng Sun*^ac

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^a Center of Molecular Devices, Department of Chemistry, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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^b Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, Uppsala University, Box 259, 75105 Uppsala, Sweden

^c DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center of Molecular Devices, State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), 116012 Dalian, China

Abstract

A photoelectrochemical device with a molecular Ru catalyst assembled via pH-modified Nafion on a dye-sensitized nanostructured TiO₂ film as anode and a Pt foil as cathode has been successfully demonstrated to split water into O₂ and H₂ driven by visible light.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CC01828G
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 10 Jun 2010
Accepted: 08 Jul 2010
First published: 04 Aug 2010

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Chem. Commun., 2010,46, 7307-7309

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A photoelectrochemical device for visible light driven water splitting by a molecular ruthenium catalyst assembled on dye-sensitized nanostructured TiO₂

L. Li, L. Duan, Y. Xu, M. Gorlov, A. Hagfeldt and L. Sun, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 7307 DOI: 10.1039/C0CC01828G

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