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Cover Feature: Coupling Photothermal Effect into Efficient Photocatalytic H 2 Production by Using a Plate‐like Cu@Ni Core‐shell Cocatalyst (ChemCatChem 10/2020)
Author(s) -
Guo Xinyang,
Xue Fei,
Xu Shikai,
Shen Shaohua,
Huang Hongwen,
Liu Maochang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chemcatchem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1867-3899
pISSN - 1867-3880
DOI - 10.1002/cctc.202000509
Subject(s) - photothermal therapy , photocatalysis , photoelectric effect , photothermal effect , materials science , nanoparticle , photochemistry , electron , coupling (piping) , metal , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , optoelectronics , chemistry , composite material , catalysis , metallurgy , physics , biochemistry , quantum mechanics , engineering
The Cover Feature shows an ideal photocatalytic process for hydrogen production from water over a composite photocatalyst composed of Cu@Ni core‐shell nanoplates and g‐C 3 N 4 by coupling photothermal effect with photoelectric effect. In their Full Paper, X. Guo et al. explain that the Cu nanoplate structure having a surface plasma resonance peak at around 580 nm can induce localized hot spots on the surface of Ni. As a result, the photogenerated electrons transferred from g‐C 3 N 4 to Ni can be elevated to a more energetic state by this photothermal effect, leading to a substantially improved photocatalytic activity. Their results indicate that photoelectric and photothermal effects can be effectively coupled by integrating metal hetero‐nanoparticles. More information can be found in the Full Paper by X. Guo et al.