Lavorato, Cristina; Primo Arnau, Ana María; Molinari, Raffaele; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2014-01-03)
There is much current interest in developing graphene-based materials as photocatalysts, particularly in the field of solar fuels and the photocatalytic generation of hydrogen. Graphene is a versatile material allowing ...
Lavorato, Cristina; Primo Arnau, Ana María; Molinari, Raffaele; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(American Chemical Society, 2014-02)
Using alginate, a natural polysaccharide from algae, simultaneously as a graphene
precursor and a templating agent for ceria nanoparticles, we have prepared a series of materials
consisting of highly crystalline ceria ...
Atienzar Corvillo, Pedro Enrique; Primo Arnau, Ana María; Lavorato, Cristina; Molinari, Raffaele; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(American Chemical Society, 2013)
Pyrolysis at 900 degrees C under an inert atmosphere of alginate, a natural widely available biopolymer, renders a graphitic carbon that upon ablation by exposure to a pulsed 532 nm laser (7 ns, 50 mJ pulse(-1)) in ...
Dye-sensitized graphene oxide is able to generate hydrogen from water/methanol mixtures (80:20) by using visible or solar light. The most efficient photocatalyst tested contained a tris(2,2-bipyridyl) ruthenium(II) complex ...