Issue 16, 2014
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Chemical Communications

Co3O4 quantum dots: reverse micelle synthesis and visible-light-driven photocatalytic overall water splitting†

Ning Zhang,a   Jinwen Shi,a   Samuel S. Maoab  and  Liejin Guo*a  

* Corresponding authors

a International Research Center for Renewable Energy (IRCRE), State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering (MFPE), Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), 28 West Xianning Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, P. R. China
E-mail: lj-guo@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

b Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Abstract

Co3O4 quantum dots were synthesized by a facile reverse micelle method for the first time, and were capable of splitting pure water into O2 and H2 stoichiometrically under visible-light irradiation (λ > 420 nm) without any cocatalyst.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC48026G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
18 Oct 2013
Accepted
02 Dec 2013
First published
13 Jan 2014

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 2002-2004

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Co3O4 quantum dots: reverse micelle synthesis and visible-light-driven photocatalytic overall water splitting

N. Zhang, J. Shi, S. S. Mao and L. Guo, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 2002 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC48026G

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