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Title	en A pathway of nanocrystallite fabrication by photo-assisted growth in pure water
Creator	en Jeem, Melbert en bin Julaihi, Muhammad Rafiq Mirza en Ishioka, Junya en Yatsu, Shigeo NRID 1000040111158 en Okamoto, Kazumasa NRID 1000010437353 en Shibayama, Tamaki NRID 1000010241564 en Iwasaki, Tomio en Kato, Takahiko en Watanabe, Seiichi NRID 1000060241353
Accessrights	open access
Rights	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ en Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Subject	NDC 541
Description	Abstract en 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.
Publisher	en Nature Publishing Group
Date	Issued2015-06-16
Language	eng
Resource Type	journal article
Version Type	VoR
Identifier	HDL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/59326
Relation	isIdenticalTo DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/srep11429
Journal	EISSN 2045-2322 en Scientific Reports Volume Number5 Page Start11429
File	fulltext srep11429-s1.pdf 487.42 KB (application/pdf) Issued2015-06-16 fulltext srep11429.pdf 2.52 MB (application/pdf) Issued2015-06-16
Oaidate	2023-07-26