| 摘要 |
The invention is directed to a method for photocatalytic water splitting, and to an apparatus for carrying out said method. The method of the invention comprises oxidising water with an oxygen evolution photocatalyst by irradiation with light, causing an electron to be generated in the conduction band of the oxygen evolution photocatalyst and a hole to be generated in the valence band of the oxygen evolution photocatalyst; reducing water with a hydrogen evolution photocatalyst by irradiation with light, causing an electron to be generated in the conduction band of the hydrogen evolution photocatalyst and a hole to be generated in the valence band of the hydrogen evolution photocatalyst; wherein said oxygen evolution photocatalyst is in contact with a first side of an electrically conductive separator layer and said hydrogen evolution photocatalyst is in contact with a second side of said electrically conductive separator layer, and wherein the electron from the conduction band of the photo-excited oxygen evolution photocatalyst recombines with the hole from the valence band of the photo-excited hydrogen evolution photocatalyst via charge transfer through the electrically conductive separator layer.
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