Sentences with phrase «photocatalytic reaction»
Instead, some scientists speculate that sunlight may transform the acid in wormwood into artemisinin, so they mimic that action in the lab, using a photocatalytic reaction to get the drug ready for anti-malarial action.
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Materials like titanium oxide, known as semiconductors with the wide band - gap, are traditionally used to convert sunlight to chemical energy for the photocatalytic reaction.
Inspired by natural processes, the team of researchers at SEAS and Wyss developed a methodology to create perfect, highly ordered, opal - like micromaterials for a wide range of catalytic and photocatalytic reactions.
The technology, described in a paper in the ACS journal Nano Letters, relies on a novel plasmonic photoelectrode architecture of light - activated gold nanoparticles that harvest sunlight to drive photocatalytic reactions by efficient, non-radiative plasmon... Read more →
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There they will measure the photocatalytic activity for the oxygen evolution and hydrogen evolution reactions, as occur when light energy is successfully used to break water down into useable fuel.