Recent advancements in plasmon-enhanced visible light-driven water splitting

Autor: Qingzhe Zhang, Deepak Thrithamarassery Gangadharan, Yanlong Liu, Zhenhe Xu, Mohamed Chaker, Dongling Ma
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of Materiomics, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 33-50 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2352-8478
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmat.2016.11.005
Popis: Recently, the combination of plasmonic noble metallic nanostructures with semiconductors for plasmon-enhanced visible light-driven water splitting (WS) has attracted considerable attention. This review first presents three prime enhancement mechanisms for plasmon-enhanced photocatalytic WS, and then some state-of-the-art representative studies are introduced according to different enhancement mechanisms. Furthermore, the design parameters of plasmonic-metal/semiconductor photocatalysts are discussed in detail, focusing on the effect of shape, size and geometric position of metallic nanostructures on the photocatalytic activity of visible light-driven WS. Finally, the challenges and perspectives for plasmon-enhanced solar WS are proposed.
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