Accelerated pyro-catalytic hydrogen production enabled by plasmonic local heating of Au on pyroelectric BaTiO3 nanoparticles

While pyrocatalysis offers a means to store energy in chemical bonds from temperature changes, most materials show low conversion efficiencies. Here, authors examine Au nanoparticles on BaTiO3 and demonstrate localized plasmonic heat sources to enhance pyrocatalytic H2 evolution.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Huilin You, Siqi Li, Yulong Fan, Xuyun Guo, Zezhou Lin, Ran Ding, Xin Cheng, Hao Zhang, Tsz Woon Benedict Lo, Jianhua Hao, Ye Zhu, Hwa-Yaw Tam, Dangyuan Lei, Chi-Hang Lam, Haitao Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33818-4