Robust dye-sensitized overall water splitting system with two-step photoexcitation of coumarin dyes and metal oxide semiconductors.
Photocatalytic splitting of water into H(2) and O(2) under visible light irradiation is achieved using a coumarin-dye-adsorbed lamellar niobium oxide for hydrogen evolution.
Abe
Ryu
R
Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, N-21, W-10, Sapporo, 001-0021, Japan. ryu-abe@cat.hokudai.ac.jp
Shinmei
Kenichi
K
Hara
Kohjiro
K
Ohtani
Bunsho
B