Reaction systems for solar hydrogen production via water splitting with particulate semiconductor photocatalysts

T Hisatomi, K Domen - Nature Catalysis, 2019 - nature.com
Photocatalytic water splitting using particulate semiconductor materials has been studied as
a simple means of hydrogen production. However, there are still many obstacles to the …

Plasmon-mediated chemical reactions

C Zhan, J Yi, S Hu, XG Zhang, DY Wu… - Nature Reviews Methods …, 2023 - nature.com
Plasmon-mediated chemical reactions (PMCRs) are processes that make use of
nanostructure-based surface plasmons as mediators to redistribute and convert photon …

Spatiotemporal imaging of charge transfer in photocatalyst particles

R Chen, Z Ren, Y Liang, G Zhang, T Dittrich, R Liu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The water-splitting reaction using photocatalyst particles is a promising route for solar fuel
production,,–. Photo-induced charge transfer from a photocatalyst to catalytic surface sites is …

Direct imaging of single-molecule electrochemical reactions in solution

J Dong, Y Lu, Y Xu, F Chen, J Yang, Y Chen, J Feng - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Chemical reactions tend to be conceptualized in terms of individual molecules transforming
into products, but are usually observed in experiments that probe the average behaviour of …

Metal-free photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution

MZ Rahman, MG Kibria, CB Mullins - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This review focuses on the discussion of the latest progress and remaining challenges in
selected metal-free photocatalysts for hydrogen production. The scope of this review is …

Surface-plasmon-driven hot electron photochemistry

Y Zhang, S He, W Guo, Y Hu, J Huang… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Visible-light-driven photochemistry has continued to attract heightened interest due to its
capacity to efficiently harvest solar energy and its potential to solve the global energy crisis …

All-optical electrochemiluminescence

Y Zhao, J Descamps, N al Hoda Al Bast… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) is widely employed for medical diagnosis and imaging.
Despite its remarkable analytical performances, the technique remains intrinsically limited …

Application of QD-MOF composites for photocatalysis: Energy production and environmental remediation

T Wu, X Liu, Y Liu, M Cheng, Z Liu, G Zeng… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2020 - Elsevier
Photocatalysis is an efficient technology for energy production and environmental
remediation. The composites of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) combined with quantum …

Experimental characterization techniques for plasmon-assisted chemistry

E Cortés, R Grzeschik, SA Maier… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Plasmon-assisted chemistry is the result of a complex interplay between electromagnetic
near fields, heat and charge transfer on the nanoscale. The disentanglement of their roles is …

Hole utilization in solar hydrogen production

MZ Rahman, T Edvinsson, J Gascon - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
In photochemical production of hydrogen from water, the hole-mediated oxidation reaction is
the rate-determining step. A poor solar-to-hydrogen efficiency is usually related to a …