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Organic photocatalysis

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By systematically exploring a large chemical space using automated experimentation, a high-performing organic photocatalyst for hydrogen evolution is discovered.

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Fig. 1: High-throughput experimentation for automated screening of donor and acceptor photocatalytic nanojunctions.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Seonghwan Kim & Charles M. Schroeder

  2. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Charles M. Schroeder

  3. Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Charles M. Schroeder

  4. Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Charles M. Schroeder

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