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Up-conversion luminescence coupled to plasmonic gold nanorods for light harvesting and hydrogen production
H AlGhamdi1, K Katsiev, A K Wahab
1Corporate Research & Development (CRD), Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) KAUST, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia. idrissh@sabic.com.
Abstract:
The conversion of infrared light to visible-light which allows a larger fraction of sun-light to be used is needed to improve light-harvesting. In this work a tri-functional material composed of an up-converter (NaYF4-Yb-Tm), plasmonic gold nanorods and CdS was made photocatalytically active using 980 nm wavelength light for the reduction of H+ to H2.

