Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Charge carrier mapping for Z-scheme photocatalytic water-splitting sheet via categorization of microscopic time-resolved image sequences

  • Makoto Ebihara,
  • Takeshi Ikeda,
  • Sayuri Okunaka,
  • Hiromasa Tokudome,
  • Kazunari Domen,
  • Kenji Katayama

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24061-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The Z-scheme photocatalytic system is promising for producing renewable energy by sunlight, but the optimization of multiple materials is challenging. Here, authors directly map out the photocatalytic activity on a microscopic scale by the clustering analysis for the time-resolved image sequence.