Mesoporous plasmonic Au-TiO2 nanocomposites for efficient visible-light-driven photocatalytic water reduction

• Main Authors: Fang, Jun, Cao, Shao-Wen, Wang, Zheng, Mohammad Mehdi Shahjamali, Loo, Say Chye Joachim, Barberand, James, Xue, Can
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Nanostructured materials
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96088; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9989
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The mesoporous Au-TiO2 nanocomposites with different Au concentrations were prepared via a co-polymer assisted sol-gel method. The structures have been characterized by powder X-Ray diffraction, N2 adsorption-desorption isotherms, diffuse reflectance UV-Vis spectroscopy, X-ray photoemission spectros...