Confined water radiolysis in aluminosilicate nanotubes: the importance of charge separation effects

• DOI: 10.1039/d0nr08948f
• Publication Date: 2021-01-27T16:11:50Z
• Authors: Marie-Claire Pignié; Viacheslav Shcher...; Thibault Charpentier; Mélanie Moskura; Cédric Carteret; Sergey Denisov; Mehran Mostafavi; Antoine Thill; Sophie Le Caër
• Keywords: [CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry; 02 engineering and technology; 0210 nano-technology

We demonstrate in this work the spontaneous curvature-induced charge separation inorganic aluminosilicate nanotubes, making them very interesting potential co-photocatalysts.