Research Project

Development of a self-assembled super-nanocrystal photocatalyst

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Kobayashi Atsushi

Outline

The aim of this research is to establish the self-assembling technique to create a novel nanoporous nanocrystal-based photocatalytic system built from molecular photosensitizers and redox catalysts. In order to produce the energy gradient to transfer protons and electrons from oxidation center to reduction center, several functional molecules are precisely integrated into the inside or surface of the nanoporous nanocrystals by utilizing various intermolecular (interatomic) interactions as covalent bond, hydrogen bond, coordination bond, hydrophilic-hydrophobic interactions and so on.