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Light-driven, carrier-mediated electron transfer across artificial membranes

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WE report that light-induced electron transport across artificial membranes mediated by electron carriers has been realised by photogeneration of the reducing species.

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  1. Institut Le Bel, Université Louis Pasteur, 4 Rue Blaise Pascal, 67000, Strasbourg, France

    JOHN J. GRIMALDI, SYLVIE BOILEAU & JEAN-MARIE LEHN

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GRIMALDI, J., BOILEAU, S. & LEHN, JM. Light-driven, carrier-mediated electron transfer across artificial membranes. Nature 265, 229–230 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/265229a0

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