Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Photoelectrochemical water splitting enhanced by self-assembled metal nanopillars embedded in an oxide semiconductor photoelectrode

  • Seiji Kawasaki,
  • Ryota Takahashi,
  • Takahisa Yamamoto,
  • Masaki Kobayashi,
  • Hiroshi Kumigashira,
  • Jun Yoshinobu,
  • Fumio Komori,
  • Akihiko Kudo,
  • Mikk Lippmaa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11818
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

Read online

Nanoscale designs are known to increase the energy conversion efficiency of photoelectrochemical water splitting. Here, the authors report a self-organized nanocomposite formed by embedding self-assembled metal nanopillars in a semiconductor thin film, for enhanced photocarrier separation efficiency.