Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 6813-6824Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c01706
Keywords
plasmonic photocatalysis; hybrid plasmonics; chalcopyrite; plasmonic semiconductor nanocrystals; water splitting
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- National Institutes of Health [R01CA138509, R01GM142012, R21GM135849]
- National Science Foundation [CHE-1808241]
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP) [DGE-1840990]
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The study integrates gold nanorods and chalcopyrite nanocrystals into water-stable nanocomposites for robust and bifunctional photocatalysis of oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions. Excitation of gold nanorods or chalcopyrite nanocrystals correlates with increased hydrogen or oxygen evolution, with the direction of light-driven electron transfer depending on the wavelength.
Excited, or hot charge carrier generation and transfer driven by the decay of localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) are key steps in plasmonic photocatalysis. Hybrid structures that contain both metal and semiconductor building blocks facilitate the extraction of reactive charge carriers and their utilization for photoelectrocatalysis. Additional functionality arises from hybrid structures that combine noble metal nanostructures with semiconductor components, such as chalcopyrite (CuFeS2) nanocrystals (NCs), which by themselves support quasistatic resonances. In this work, we use a hybrid membrane to integrate Au nanorods (NRs) with a longitudinal LSPR at 745 nm and CuFeS2 NCs with a resonance peak at 490 nm into water-stable nanocomposites for robust and bifunctional photocatalysis of oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions in a wavelength-dependent manner. Excitation of NRs or NCs in the nanocomposite correlates with increased hydrogen or oxygen evolution, respectively, consistent with a light-driven electron transfer between the metal and semiconductor building blocks, the direction of which depends on the wavelength. The bifunctional photoreactivity of the nanocomposite is enhanced by Cu(I)/Cu(II)-assisted catalysis on the surface of the NCs.
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