Sentences with phrase «using photocatalytic»

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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Bao said photocatalytic water - splitting experiments have been tried since the 1970s, but this was the first to use cobalt oxide and the first to use neutral water under visible light at a high energy conversion efficiency without co-catalysts or sacrificial chemicals.

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.

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.

Plasmon - Enhanced Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Using Colloidal Nanocrystals E. Creel, Y. Kim, E. Corson, F. Qiu, R. Kostecki, J. J. Urban, and D. McMloskey