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Visible-Light-Driven Water Oxidation on Self-Assembled Metal-Free Organic@Carbon Junctions at Neutral pH

Olaya, Astrid J.  
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Riva, Julieta S.  
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Baster, Dominika  
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December 27, 2021
Jacs Au

Sustainable water oxidation requires low-cost, stable, and efficient redox couples, photosensitizers, and catalysts. Here, we introduce the in situ self-assembly of metal-atom-free organic-based semiconductive structures on the surface of carbon supports. The resulting TTF/TTF center dot+@carbon junction (TTF = tetrathiafulvalene) acts as an all-in-one highly stable redox-shuttle/photosensitizer/molecular-catalyst triad for the visible-light-driven water oxidation reaction (WOR) at neutral pH, eliminating the need for metallic or organometallic catalysts and sacrificial electron acceptors. A water/butyronitrile emulsion was used to physically separate the photoproducts of the WOR, H+ and TTF, allowing the extraction and subsequent reduction of protons in water, and the in situ electrochemical oxidation of TTF to TTF center dot+ on carbon in butyronitrile by constant anode potential electrolysis. During 100 h, no decomposition of TTF was observed and O-2 was from the emulsion while H-2 was in the This work new for a new generation of metal-atom-free, low-cost, redox-driven water-splitting strategies.

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research article
DOI
10.1021/jacsau.1c00408
Web of Science ID

WOS:000746271300001

Author(s)
Olaya, Astrid J.  
Riva, Julieta S.  
Baster, Dominika  
Silva, Wanderson O.  
Pichard, Francois  
Girault, Hubert H.  
Date Issued

2021-12-27

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Published in
Jacs Au
Volume

1

Issue

12

Start page

2294

End page

2302

Subjects

Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

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Chemistry

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water oxidation

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hydrogen evolution

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photochemistry

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sustainable

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redox shuttles

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solar-cells

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redox mediator

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hydrogen

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evolution

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o-2

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photocatalysts

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photoanodes

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generation

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catalyst

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scaffold

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