A Comparison of Photocatalytic Activities of Gold Nanoparticles Following Plasmonic and Interband Excitation and a Strategy for Harnessing Interband Hot Carriers for Solution Phase Photocatalysis

• Jie Zhao,
• Son C. Nguyen,
• Rong Ye,
• Baihua Ye,
• Horst Weller,
• Gábor A. Somorjai,
• A. Paul Alivisatos,
• F. Dean Toste

Affiliations

Jie Zhao

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States

Son C. Nguyen

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States

Rong Ye

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States

Baihua Ye

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States

Horst Weller

The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Hamburg, Germany

Gábor A. Somorjai

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States

A. Paul Alivisatos

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States

F. Dean Toste

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States