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Lanthanide-doped NaYF4 upconversion nanoparticles as bifunctional catalysts for overall water splitting

Debika Gogoi,a   Soumantika Jana, ORCID logo a   Neha Patel,a   Bo-Yan Feng,b   Jeffrey C. S. Wu ORCID logo *b  and  Rakesh K. Sharma ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Sustainable Materials and Catalysis Research Lab, IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan 342030, India
E-mail: rks@iitj.ac.in

b Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
E-mail: cswu@ntu.edu.tw

Abstract

This study reports bifunctional β-NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ and β-NaYF4:Yb3+/Tm3+ UCNPs capable of efficient overall water splitting under both electrochemical and photoelectrochemical conditions, exhibiting low overpotentials, good stability, and enhanced PEC activity, offering a promising route toward sustainable, solar-driven hydrogen production.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CC05901A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
24 Oct 2025
Accepted
31 Dec 2025
First published
06 Jan 2026

Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article

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Lanthanide-doped NaYF4 upconversion nanoparticles as bifunctional catalysts for overall water splitting

D. Gogoi, S. Jana, N. Patel, B. Feng, J. C. S. Wu and R. K. Sharma, Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/D5CC05901A

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