Cláudia G. Silva

TL;DR: For the novel visible light photoactivity of Au/TiO(2), it has been determined that gold loading, particle size and calcination temperature play a role in the photocatalytic activity, the most active material being the catalyst containing 0.2 wt % gold with 1.87 nm average particle size.

TL;DR: Laser-flash photolysis has allowed detecting the photochemical generation of a long lived charge separated state whose decay is not complete 300 μs after the laser flash, and the influence of the amino group producing a bathochromic shift in the optical spectrum without altering the photochemistry shows promises for the development of more efficient MOFs for water splitting.

TL;DR: The overall efficiency of (Zn/Cr)LDH for visible light oxygen generation was found to be 1.6 times higher than that of WO(3) under the same conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the current evidence in support of considering some MOFs as semiconductors, including the synthesis of semiconducting MOFs by design and development of applications.

TL;DR: In this article, the photochemical and photocatalytic degradation of aqueous solutions of Solophenyl Green (SG) BLE 155, an azo dye preparation very persistent in heavy colored textile waters, has been investigated by means of ultraviolet (UV) irradiation.