Increasing electron density through an n-type semiconductor to accelerate hot electrons from plasmonic Au nanospheres for artificial photosynthesis and cross-coupling reactions

Abstract

Here, we report the synthesis of an n-type semiconductor (SnO2) and gold nanospheres (GNSs) based core-satellite heterostructures (SnO2@GNSs) composed of GNSs as core and ultra-small SnO2 nanodots as a satellite...