Plasmonically Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production from Water: The Critical Role of Tunable Surface Plasmon Resonance from Gold-Silver Nanoshells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 9152-9161

  Li, Chien Hung ^a   Li, Min Chih ^c   Liu, Si Ping ^c   Jamison, Andrew C ^a   Lee, Dahye ^b   Lee, T Randall ^a   Lee, Tai Chou ^c  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

gold silver nanoshells; hydrogen energy; photocatalyst; surface plasmon resonance; zinc indium sulfide

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ENERGY GAP; GOLD; HOT ELECTRONS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; INDIUM; INDIUM SULFIDE; NANOSHELLS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PLASMONS; RESONANCE; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SILVER; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

CHARGE TRANSFER MECHANISMS; HYDROGEN ENERGY; HYDROGEN GAS EVOLUTION; MICROWAVE-ASSISTED HYDROTHERMAL; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; PHOTOEXCITED CARRIERS; PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN; VISIBLE LIGHT ACTIVE PHOTOCATALYSTS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84964862051     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b01197     Document Type: Article

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