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Title
  • A pathway of nanocrystallite fabrication by photo-assisted growth in pure water
Creator

Jeem, Melbert

bin Julaihi, Muhammad Rafiq Mirza

Ishioka, Junya

Yatsu, Shigeo

NRID 1000040111158

Okamoto, Kazumasa

NRID 1000010437353

Shibayama, Tamaki

NRID 1000010241564

Iwasaki, Tomio

Kato, Takahiko

Watanabe, Seiichi

NRID 1000060241353
Rights
    • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Subject
  • NDC 541
Description
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  • We report a new production pathway for a variety of metal oxide nanocrystallites via submerged illumination in water: submerged photosynthesis of crystallites (SPSC). Similar to the growth of green plants by photosynthesis, nanocrystallites shaped as nanoflowers and nanorods are hereby shown to grow at the protruded surfaces via illumination in pure, neutral water. The process is photocatalytic, accompanied with hydroxyl radical generation via water splitting; hydrogen gas is generated in some cases, which indicates potential for application in green technologies. Together with the aid of ab initio calculation, it turns out that the nanobumped surface, as well as aqueous ambience and illumination are essential for the SPSC method. Therefore, SPSC is a surfactant-free, low-temperature technique for metal oxide nanocrystallites fabrication.
PublisherNature Publishing Group
Date Issued 2015-06-16
Languageeng
NIItypejournal article
VersiontypeVoR
Identifier URI http://hdl.handle.net/2115/59326
Relation
  • isIdenticalTo DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/srep11429
Journal
    • ISSN 2045-2322
    • Scientific Reports
    5, 11429
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