title: Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water by niobate single molecular sheets and ensembles.
abstract: We report single molecular sheets of niobate prepared by a simple bottom-up approach using hydrothermal synthesis of niobium ethoxide with the aid of triethanolamine as a structural modifier: the high kinetic stability of these molecular entities against self-assembly allows them to mix well with other colloids and facilitates their extensive electronic interactions and thus photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity from water is much enhanced over composite of single niobate sheets with graphene and MoS2 due to efficient electron transfer and charge separation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, OX1 3QR, UK. edman.tsang@chem.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Keizo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: Tiantian
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Weiran
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Simon Michael
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Fairclough
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Katoh
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sugiyama
authors.forename: Shik Chi Edman
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Tsang