Mechanistic Insights into the In Situ Restructuring of Coordinated Copper in Postmetalated MOFs for Photocatalysis
Zahraa Abou Khalil, Karen Hannouche, Akashdeep Nath, Nisrine Assaad, Leen Farhat, Georges Mouchaham, Dong Fan, Oleg Lebedev, Anthony Beauvois, Ali Youssef, Valerie Briois, Guillaume Clet, Guillaume Maurin, Christian Serre, Marco Daturi, Mohamad Hmadeh, Mohamad El-Roz · 2025
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Description
Zahraa Abou Khalil and a large team watch copper atoms reshape themselves inside a metal-organic framework while it works as a photocatalyst. The frameworks, built on the UiO-66 design with extra acid groups on their links, split formic acid under light. Live infrared and X-ray probes tracked the surface and the copper during the reaction.
More acid groups meant more internal anhydride formation, which tracked efficiency one to one. Light also rebuilt the copper from mixed higher states into a paired low-state system that does the work. Charge flowed from the zirconium clusters to the copper under light. Calculations backed the picture and give design rules for light-driven catalysts.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Zahraa Abou Khalil, Karen Hannouche, Akashdeep Nath, Nisrine Assaad, Leen Farhat, Georges Mouchaham, Dong Fan, Oleg Lebedev, Anthony Beauvois, Ali Youssef, Valerie Briois, Guillaume Clet, Guillaume Maurin, Christian Serre, Marco Daturi, Mohamad Hmadeh, Mohamad El-Roz |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 84 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |