title: High performance Au-Cu alloy for enhanced visible-light water splitting driven by coinage metals.
abstract: A Au-Cu alloy strategy is, for the first time, demonstrated to be effective in enhancing visible-light photocatalytic H2 evolution via promoting metal interband transitions. Au3Cu/SrTiO3, in which oxidation of Cu was successfully restrained, showed the highest visible-light H2 evolution activity.
authors.affiliation: TU-NIMS Joint Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China. Lequan.Liu@tju.edu.cn Jinhua.Ye@nims.go.jp and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin 300072, P. R. China and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials and Key Lab of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Mingyang
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Materials Physics and Preparing Technology, Faculty of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: TU-NIMS Joint Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China. Lequan.Liu@tju.edu.cn Jinhua.Ye@nims.go.jp and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin 300072, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Ting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: TU-NIMS Joint Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China. Lequan.Liu@tju.edu.cn Jinhua.Ye@nims.go.jp and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin 300072, P. R. China and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials and Key Lab of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Defa
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: TU-NIMS Joint Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China. Lequan.Liu@tju.edu.cn Jinhua.Ye@nims.go.jp and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin 300072, P. R. China and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials and Key Lab of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Lequan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: TU-NIMS Joint Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China. Lequan.Liu@tju.edu.cn Jinhua.Ye@nims.go.jp and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin 300072, P. R. China and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials and Key Lab of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China and International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) and Environmental Remediation Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan.
authors.forename: Jinhua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ye