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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 6, Issue 12, Pages 2265-2268Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00872
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- I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee
- Israel Science Foundation [152/11]
- Schulich postdoctoral fellowship
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We provide evidence that for a multielectron reaction such as hydrogen reduction, the photocatalyst design should include only a single cocatalytic site per each segment of the semiconductor capable of light excitation. This is to ensure that intermediates are formed at close proximity. These findings are demonstrated by evaluating the efficiency for hydrogen production over a nanoparticle-based photocatalyst consisting of Pt-decorated CdSe@CdS rods. Rods decorated with a single Pt catalyst were found to be the most active for hydrogen production, with QE of 27%, while rods having two reduction sites reached QE of only 18% and rods with multiple sites showed very low activity. The advantage of using a single catalytic site became negligible when the rods were employed in catalyzing a single electron reaction. We believe the implications of this finding are of significance for the proper design of photocatalysts aimed at solar-to-fuel energy conversion.
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