inorganic chemistry

and after 60 min of visible light irradiation (l455 nm) 95% of 4-CP had disappeared whereas 75% of 4-CP mineralized. 2.0% RhBr ...

C. MECHANISM To test if the photocatalytic activity of RhCl 3 /TH is also initiated by a homolytic MCl bond cleavage, as propose ...

HO 2 þHO 2 !H 2 O 2 þO 2 ð 17 Þ H 2 O 2 þO 2 !OH  þOH  þO 2 ð 18 Þ H 2 O 2 þeCB!OHþOH ð 19 Þ Visible light excitation w ...

( 57 – 59 ) is converted to an OH radical. The latter subsequently induces oxidation of 4-CP. Recently, it was reported that als ...

REFERENCES Lehn, J. M.; Sauvage, J. P.Nouv. J. Chim.1977, 1 , 449. Serpone, N.; Pelizzetti, E. E. “Photocatalysis. Fundamentals ...

experiment. Thus, comparisons are justified only of results within one fig- ure but not between different figures, except mentio ...

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PHOTOCATALYSIS BY INORGANIC SOLID MATERIALS: REVISITING ITS DEFINITION, CONCEPTS, AND EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES B. OHTANI Catalysi ...

ABSTRACT This review has been written in order to clarify fundamental aspects of photocatalysis, an important subject in inorgan ...

to suggest reading also his recent review ( 4 ) on photocatalysis, which may be helpful for understanding the outline of studies ...

C. PHOTOCATALYTICACTIVITY The term“activity”is often used in papers on photocatalysis as “photocatalytic activity.”Although the ...

is not directly involved in the photocatalytic reaction, the use of the term “active site” is inappropriate, and a relationship ...

chemical species, not having the above mentioned band struc- ture, on or in a solid can be a photocatalyst, and even when a bulk ...

an electron migrates from VB to CB spatially. Anyway, the above mentioned interpretation seems a little strange considering the ...

radicals were detected in a suspension of titania particles under ultraviolet irradiation (11,12). Although the author does not ...

1980s, it was thought that this inner electric field separates e––hþeffectively; that is, e–and hþ migrate to the bulk and surfa ...

F. ENERGYCONVERSION Photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical cleavage of water pro- duces hydrogen (H 2 ), as an ideal fuel emitt ...

No energy conversion CB VB ΔG ( < 0) e– h+ Ephoton Energy Shorter ———— Longer Wavelength E ΔG ( > 0) photon CB VB h + e– E ...

ðÞenergy conversion efficiency ¼’ DGDb Ephoton : ð 1 Þ However, the reasonability of this calculation has been scarcely discuss ...

of photocatalytic reaction obeys the first-order rate law, but this is only formal and does not mean the mechanism of monomolecu ...