Issue 36, 2016
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Chemical Communications

Tuning of photocatalytic reduction by conduction band engineering of semiconductor quantum dots with experimental evaluation of the band edge potential†

Takafumi Suzuki,a   Hiroto Watanabe,b   Yuya Oakia  and  Hiroaki Imai*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
E-mail: hiroaki@applc.keio.ac.jp

b Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute, 2-4-10 Aomi. Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0064, Japan

Abstract

The conduction band edge (CBE) of WO3 quantum dots (QDs) was determined experimentally and engineered by size control to around one nanometer. Photocatalytic reactions of proton and molecular oxygen were tuned by changing the CBE of WO3-QDs.

Graphical abstract: Tuning of photocatalytic reduction by conduction band engineering of semiconductor quantum dots with experimental evaluation of the band edge potential

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC01166G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Feb 2016
Accepted
06 Apr 2016
First published
07 Apr 2016
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 6185-6188

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Tuning of photocatalytic reduction by conduction band engineering of semiconductor quantum dots with experimental evaluation of the band edge potential

T. Suzuki, H. Watanabe, Y. Oaki and H. Imai, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 6185 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC01166G

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