Maximilian J. Berr

TL;DR: It is proposed that employing a hydroxyl anion/radical redox couple to efficiently relay the hole from the semiconductor to the scavenger leads to a marked increase in the H2 generation rate without using expensive noble metal co-catalysts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Pt-decorated CdS nanorods for photocatalytic hydrogen generation in the presence of sacrificial hole scavengers and found that both the quantum efficiency for hydrogen generation and the stability of the colloidal nanocrystals in solution improve with increasing redox potential of the hole scavenger.

TL;DR: The photocatalytic water reduction reaction on CdS nanorods was studied as function of Pt cluster size and maximum H2 production is found for Pt46.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors showed that with uniform, relatively large (4.8 nm mean size) Pt nanoparticles, a significantly higher yield of samples decorated with exactly one Pt particle per rod was obtained.

TL;DR: This Letter investigates the ultimate survival probabilities characterizing different species in cyclic competition and demonstrates a robust zero-one law: When the interactions between the three species are (generically) asymmetric, the "weakest" species survives at a probability that tends to one for large population sizes, while the other two are guaranteed to extinction.