Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Unravelling the effect of charge dynamics at the plasmonic metal/semiconductor interface for CO2 photoreduction

  • Laura Collado,
  • Anna Reynal,
  • Fernando Fresno,
  • Mariam Barawi,
  • Carlos Escudero,
  • Virginia Perez-Dieste,
  • Juan M. Coronado,
  • David P. Serrano,
  • James R. Durrant,
  • Víctor A. de la Peña O’Shea

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07397-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Light-driven CO2 reduction provides a way to limit greenhouse gas concentrations, but understanding how materials accomplish this transformation is challenging. Here, authors examine the reaction over plasmonic silver-titanium dioxide using time-resolved, in situ techniques to follow the mechanism.