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Enhanced Photosensitized Hydrogen Production by Encapsulation of Ferrocenyl Dyes into Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.

Noritake MurakamiHideaki MiyakeTomoyuki TajimaKakeru NishikawaRyutaro HirayamaYutaka Takaguchi
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2018)
Dye-encapsulated single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) were employed for the construction of a coaxial three-component dye/SWCNT/C60 heterojunction. Despite the larger diameter (∼1.4 nm) of the SWCNTs relative to that set by Flavel's rule (0.95 nm), the photoinduced electron transfer from dye-encapsulated SWCNTs to C60 proceeded smoothly, resulting in the photosensitized evolution of H2 from H2O using a ferrocenyl-based photosensitizer, which was confirmed by the action spectra.
Keyphrases
  • walled carbon nanotubes
  • electron transfer
  • photodynamic therapy
  • visible light
  • highly efficient
  • aqueous solution
  • density functional theory
  • perovskite solar cells