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posted on 2018-12-17, 00:00 authored by Okta Suryani, Yuta Higashino, Haruka Sato, Yuji KuboA novel visible-to-near-infrared
(visible-to-NIR) light-driven
photocatalyst was prepared by loading a dibenzo-BODIPY-phenothiazine
conjugate dye 1 as a panchromatic photosensitizer on
hierarchical porous TiO2 (HPT) semiconductor. The sensitizer 1, which absorbed visible light at 638 and 440 nm with molecular
extinction coefficients (ε) of 1.23 × 105 and
1.80 × 104 M–1 cm–1, respectively, in THF due to the dibenzo-BODIPY and phenothiazine-based
D−π–A systems, respectively, showed panchromatic
absorption up to 780 nm when deposited on the Pt/HPT photocatalyst
to produce Pt/HPT500/1. The photocatalytic activities
were investigated in the presence of ascorbic acid as a sacrificial
agent in phosphate buffer solution under irradiation with λ
> 400 nm using a 300 W Xe lamp at 100 mW cm–2 light
intensity. After 10-h irradiation, the system achieved a remarkable
catalytic activity for the production of H2 with a turnover
number (TON) value of 11100. The sustained activity was suggestive
after two sequences of 10-h illumination-period, whereas we found
somewhat decrease in the photoactivity for the third run, although
a TON value of 5650 still remained. The apparent quantum yields were
evaluated by monitoring H2 production for each monochromatic
light irradiation (λ = 420, 530, 600, 670, 700, and 750 nm).
They were found to be consistent with the absorption profile, proving
the panchromatic hydrogen generation sensitized by 1.
The active absorption band of dye 1 in the entire visible-to-NIR
spectrum led to production of a dye-sensitized photocatalytic system
with a light-to-fuel efficiency of 6.96% in the initial irradiation
period. This study provides important information for the development
of metal-free organic photosensitizers with a wide spectral response
up to the NIR region for photocatalytic water-splitting H2 production.
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light-to-fuel efficiencyirradiation periodabsorption banddye-sensitized photocatalytic system10- h irradiationpanchromatic hydrogen generationnovel visible-to-near-infraredphosphate buffer solutionpanchromatic absorptionPtlight-driven photocatalyst300 W Xe lampdibenzo-BODIPY-phenothiazine conjugate dye 1dye 1H 2visible-to-NIR spectrumTHF440 nmabsorption profilecmphotocatalytic activitiesascorbic acidquantum yieldspanchromatic photosensitizerPhenothiazine Conjugate780 nmTON valuemonitoring H 2 productionphotocatalytic water-splitting H 2 productionNIR regionVisible-to-Near-Infrared Light-Driven Photocatalytic Hydrogen Productionturnover numbersensitizer 1HPT10- h illumination-period400 nmTiO 2Organic Photosensitizer750 nm