ArticleNano letters2026
Plasmonic Hot-Electron Transfer in Gold-Nanostar-Conjugated Poly(heptazine imide) Photocatalyst.
Article in Nano letters, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Au LSPR-boosted S-scheme carbon nitride heterostructures for HJournal of materials chemistry. A · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Plasmonic metal-semiconductor hybrid systems have emerged as promising platforms for enhancing photocatalytic efficiency through hot-carrier generation and transfer, with applications in solar energy conversion and chemical synthesis. Here, we investigate ultrafast charge carrier dynamics in a polymeric carbon nitride photocatalyst hybridized with gold nanostars. Using pump-probe spectroscopy, efficient electron scavenging and strong interfacial electronic coupling between gold and a poly(heptazine imide) matrix was observed, manifesting in significant modifications in the hot-carrier relaxation dynamics. Hot-electron injection from gold to poly(heptazine imide) with an efficiency of approximately 40% (standard error 12%) was observed, one of the highest reported for metal-semiconductor systems. This enhanced efficiency is attributed to the nanostar morphology, whose sharp features promote momentum relaxation and facilitate interfacial charge transfer. The findings provide direct insight into excitation-dependent electron dynamic processes and highlight the strong potential of carbon nitride-based composites for plasmonically enhanced photocatalysis, offering guidance for the design and optimization of advanced photocatalytic systems.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.