Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques · Lab experiment

Can organic particles make fuel from light?

Paper: Organic crystalline nanoparticles with a long-lived charge-separated state for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production
Cai et al. · Nature Chemistry 2026 · doi.org/10.1038/s41557-025-02035-z

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Can organic particles make fuel from light? These keep charges apart for up to 1.2 seconds and made hydrogen for 77 hours using a platinum co-catalyst and a sacrificial additive.

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