• ●Development of photocatalysts for solar-based synthesis of organic chemicals

The light-induced organic synthesis using semiconductor photocatalysts is a promising approach due to its significant advantages of operation under mild conditions and utilization of clean, renewable solar light as the driving force, TiO2 is one of the most widely studied photocatalysts; however, the low selectivity for partial oxidation due to the complete decomposition to CO2 and lack of utilization of visible-light hampers its practical application. Therefore, the objective of this research is to develop a photocatalyst that utilizes visible light as a reaction source and enables selective partial oxidation.

Features

• ●Development of visible-light-responsive photocatalyst materials and its suitable co-catalysts
• ●Developments of various organic transformation reactions using the synthesized visible-light-responsive photocatalysts