The technology, described in a paper in the ACS journal Nano Letters, relies on a novel plasmonic photoelectrode architecture of light - activated gold nanoparticles that harvest sunlight to drive
photocatalytic reactions by efficient, non-radiative plasmon... Read more →
Inspired by natural processes, the team of researchers at SEAS and Wyss developed a methodology to create perfect, highly ordered, opal - like micromaterials for a wide range of catalytic and
photocatalytic reactions.
Materials like titanium oxide, known as semiconductors with the wide band - gap, are traditionally used to convert sunlight to chemical energy for
the photocatalytic reaction.
Instead, some scientists speculate that sunlight may transform the acid in wormwood into artemisinin, so they mimic that action in the lab, using
a photocatalytic reaction to get the drug ready for anti-malarial action.
Not exact matches
There they will measure the
photocatalytic activity for the oxygen evolution and hydrogen evolution
reactions, as occur when light energy is successfully used to break water down into useable fuel.