Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 53, Issue 11, Pages 2910-2914Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201309759
Keywords
heterogeneous catalysis; hydrogen generation; molybdenum oxide; nanostructures; surface plasmon resonance
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26620194, 12F02383, 26630409, 24760640, 23360356] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Plasmonic materials have drawn emerging interest, especially in nontraditional semiconductor nanostructures with earth-abundant elements and low resistive loss. However, the actualization of highly efficient catalysis in plasmonic semiconductor nanostructures is still a challenge, owing to the presence of surface-capping agents in their synthetic procedures. To fulfill this, a facile non-aqueous procedure was employed to prepare well-defined molybdenum oxide nano-sheets in the absence of surfactants. The obtained MoO3-x nanosheets display intense absorption in a wide range attributed to the localized surface plasmon resonances, which can be tuned from the visible to the near-infrared region. Herein, we demonstrate that such plasmonic semiconductor nanostructures could be used as highly efficient catalysts that dramatically enhance the hydrogen-generation activity of ammonia borane under visible light irradiation.
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