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Accelerated pyro-catalytic hydrogen production enabled by plasmonic local heating of Au on pyroelectric BaTiO3 nanoparticles

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  • Huilin You

    (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

  • Siqi Li

    (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    The City University of Hong Kong
    Anhui University)

  • Yulong Fan

    (The City University of Hong Kong)

  • Xuyun Guo

    (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

  • Zezhou Lin

    (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

  • Ran Ding

    (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

  • Xin Cheng

    (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

  • Hao Zhang

    (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

  • Tsz Woon Benedict Lo

    (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

  • Jianhua Hao

    (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

  • Ye Zhu

    (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

  • Hwa-Yaw Tam

    (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

  • Dangyuan Lei

    (The City University of Hong Kong)

  • Chi-Hang Lam

    (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

  • Haitao Huang

    (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Abstract

The greatest challenge that limits the application of pyro-catalytic materials is the lack of highly frequent thermal cycling due to the enormous heat capacity of ambient environment, resulting in low pyro-catalytic efficiency. Here, we introduce localized plasmonic heat sources to rapidly yet efficiently heat up pyro-catalytic material itself without wasting energy to raise the surrounding temperature, triggering a significantly expedited pyro-catalytic reaction and enabling multiple pyro-catalytic cycling per unit time. In our work, plasmonic metal/pyro-catalyst composite is fabricated by in situ grown gold nanoparticles on three-dimensional structured coral-like BaTiO3 nanoparticles, which achieves a high hydrogen production rate of 133.1 ± 4.4 μmol·g−1·h−1 under pulsed laser irradiation. We also use theoretical analysis to study the effect of plasmonic local heating on pyro-catalysis. The synergy between plasmonic local heating and pyro-catalysis will bring new opportunities in pyro-catalysis for pollutant treatment, clean energy production, and biological applications.

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  • Huilin You & Siqi Li & Yulong Fan & Xuyun Guo & Zezhou Lin & Ran Ding & Xin Cheng & Hao Zhang & Tsz Woon Benedict Lo & Jianhua Hao & Ye Zhu & Hwa-Yaw Tam & Dangyuan Lei & Chi-Hang Lam & Haitao Huang, 2022. "Accelerated pyro-catalytic hydrogen production enabled by plasmonic local heating of Au on pyroelectric BaTiO3 nanoparticles," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-33818-4
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33818-4
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