Designer titania-supported Au-Pd nanoparticles for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3490-3497

  Su, Ren ^a   Tiruvalam, Ramchandra ^b   Logsdail, Andrew J ^c   He, Qian ^b   Downing, Christopher A ^c   Jensen, Mikkel T ^a   Dimitratos, Nikolaos ^c,d   Kesavan, Lokesh ^e   Wells, Peter P ^c,d   Bechstein, Ralf ^a   Jensen, Henrik H ^a   Wendt, Stefan ^a   Catlow, C Richard A ^c,d   Kiely, Christopher J ^b   Hutchings, Graham J ^d,e   Besenbacher, Flemming ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Lehigh University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cocatalysts; density functional theory; hydrogen evolution; metal nanoparticles; photocatalysis

Indexed keywords

BYPRODUCTS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PALLADIUM; PHOTOCATALYSIS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; REDOX REACTIONS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CO CATALYSTS; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; NARROW BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOTOCATALYST MATERIALS; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; TIO; VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSIS;

GOLD;

EID: 84899448598     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn500963m     Document Type: Article

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