OC62 Novel Composite Photocatalysts for Visible Light Water Splitting

Thursday, June 9, 2011: 2:50 PM
Cartier Ballroom (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
David Ingram and Suljo Linic, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
An important obstacle limiting the efficiency of semiconductor photoelectrocatalysts is the high recombination rate of bulk charge carriers. We show that the addition of plasmon active Ag nanoparticles to a semiconductor selectively enhances the production of charge carriers near the semiconductor surface, thereby increasing the water splitting reaction rate.

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