TY - JOUR
T1 - Semiconductor behavior of a metal-organic framework (MOF)
AU - Alvaro, Mercedes
AU - Carbonell Llopis, Esther
AU - Ferrer, Belén
AU - Llabrés I Xamena, Francesc X.
AU - Garcia, Hermenegildo
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Upon light excitation MOF-5 behaves as a semiconductor and undergoes charge separation (electrons and holes) decaying in the microsecond time scale. The actual conduction band energy value was estimated to be 0.2 V versus NHE with a band gap of 3.4 eV. Photoinduced electron transfer processes to viologen generates the corresponding viologen radical cation, while holes of MOF-5 oxidizes N/N,N′,N′-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine. One application investigated for MOF-5 as a semiconductor has been the shape-selective photocatalyzed degradation of phenol in aqueous solutions.
AB - Upon light excitation MOF-5 behaves as a semiconductor and undergoes charge separation (electrons and holes) decaying in the microsecond time scale. The actual conduction band energy value was estimated to be 0.2 V versus NHE with a band gap of 3.4 eV. Photoinduced electron transfer processes to viologen generates the corresponding viologen radical cation, while holes of MOF-5 oxidizes N/N,N′,N′-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine. One application investigated for MOF-5 as a semiconductor has been the shape-selective photocatalyzed degradation of phenol in aqueous solutions.
KW - Charge separation
KW - Electron transfer
KW - Metal-organic frameworks
KW - Photocatalysis
KW - Semiconductors
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U2 - 10.1002/chem.200601003
DO - 10.1002/chem.200601003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34250899776
SN - 0947-6539
VL - 13
SP - 5106
EP - 5112
JO - Chemistry: A European Journal
JF - Chemistry: A European Journal
IS - 18
ER -