Boosting Hot Electron-Driven Photocatalysis through Anisotropic Plasmonic Nanoparticles with Hot Spots in Au–TiO2 Nanoarchitectures

• Published in: Journal of physical chemistry. C Vol. 120; no. 21; pp. 11690 - 11699
• Main Authors: Sousa-Castillo, Ana, Comesaña-Hermo, Miguel, Rodríguez-González, Benito, Pérez-Lorenzo, Moisés, Wang, Zhiming, Kong, Xiang-Tian, Govorov, Alexander O, Correa-Duarte, Miguel A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Chemical Society 02.06.2016

The use of plasmonic metal nanoparticles as photosensitizers has undergone a strong development in the past few years given their ability to increase the activity of semiconductors into the visible and near-infrared regions. The present work reports an experimental and theoretical study on the criti...