T.N. gratefully acknowledges receipt of a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. The work presented here was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). P.-M.W. was supported by the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, under the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FP086-2007C).
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Water Splitting by Visible Light: A Nanophotocathode for Hydrogen Production†
Article first published online: 5 FEB 2010
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200906262
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Nann, T., Ibrahim, Saad K., Woi, P.-M., Xu, S., Ziegler, J. and Pickett, Christopher J. (2010), Water Splitting by Visible Light: A Nanophotocathode for Hydrogen Production. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 49: 1574–1577. doi: 10.1002/anie.200906262
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Publication History
- Issue published online: 17 FEB 2010
- Article first published online: 5 FEB 2010
- Manuscript Received: 6 NOV 2009
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- Royal Society
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- BMBF
- University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Grant Number: FP086-2007C
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Keywords:
- catalysis;
- electrochemistry;
- nanoparticles;
- quantum dots;
- water splitting
Hitting water with a 2 iron: A novel nanophotocathode for hydrogen production is based on a multilayer array of InP quantum dots activated with a synthetic diiron catalyst (see picture), which is related to the subsite of FeFe hydrogenase.