title: Artificial photosynthesis: photosensitizer/catalyst supramolecular assemblies for light driven water oxidation.
abstract: Three new supramolecular assemblies SA1-SA3 with different linkages between the photosensitizer and catalyst have been synthesized for light driven water oxidation. With flexible -CH(2)-CH(2)- chains as the linkage, the assembly SA3 displays the best performance for photocatalytic water oxidation compared with the other two assemblies, a turnover number of 34 has been obtained based on the molecular assembly SA3 in a homogeneous system. This type of assembly connected with flexible linkages represents suitable candidates to construct photoanodes for light driven water splitting in dye sensitized photoelectrochemical devices.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), Dalian 116024, China. dr.gaoyan@dlut.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Lina
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Duan
authors.forename: Ze
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Licheng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sun