Nagarajan Srinivasan

TL;DR: The nanocluster grafting technique described here can be applied for the surface activation of various semiconductor light harvesters, such as metal oxide and/or metal chalcogenides, and is expected to aid in the development of efficient CO2 photoreduction systems.

TL;DR: In this article, a copper-and-zinc (Cu-Zn) alloy material was synthesized using a vacuum sealing method, in which evaporated zinc was reacted with copper film or nanoparticles to form a homogeneous Cu5Zn alloy.

TL;DR: A visible-light-sensitive tin sulfide photocatalyst was designed based on a ubiquitous element strategy and density functional theory (DFT) calculations, and the bandgap of the synthesized SnS quantum dots was found to be tunable by adjusting the number of successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) cycles, which controls the magnitude of the quantum confinement effect.

TL;DR: In this article, the interfacial design and management of absorbed photon number in heterogeneous photocatalysts are essential factors for constructing Z-scheme systems that are capable of overall water splitting.

TL;DR: In this article, the PEDOT polymer was electrochemically coated over a quantum dot-sensitized semiconductor and efficiently suppressed the back electron transfer from the semiconductor, thereby improving the photocurrent as compared to the uncoated control.