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Plasmonic Water Splitting: Plasmon‐Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting for Efficient Renewable Energy Storage (Adv. Mater. 31/2019)
Author(s) -
Mascaretti Luca,
Dutta Aveek,
Kment Štěpán,
Shalaev Vladimir M.,
Boltasseva Alexandra,
Zbořil Radek,
Naldoni Alberto
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201970220
Subject(s) - plasmon , materials science , semiconductor , water splitting , optoelectronics , photonics , charge carrier , nanotechnology , photocatalysis , chemistry , biochemistry , catalysis
In article number 1805513, Alexandra Boltasseva, Radek Zbořil, Alberto Naldoni, and co‐workers discuss fundamental aspects of plasmonic mechanisms and selected case studies relating to water splitting. The integration of plasmonic effects, such as resonant energy transfer, scattering, hot‐electron injection, guided modes, and photonic effects, in semiconductor photoelectrodes for water splitting has led to significant improvements in terms of efficiency, overcoming limitations in photoelectrochemical devices based on earth‐abundant semiconductors related to low light absorption, low charge mobility, high charge‐carrier recombination, and reduced diffusion length of semiconductors.