... A Plasmonic Photocatalyst Consisting of Silver NanoparticlesEmbedded in Titanium Dioxide Koichi Awazu,*,†Makoto Fujimaki,†Carsten Rockstuhl,†,‡Junji Tominaga,†Hirotaka Murakami,§Yoshimichi ... thephotocatalysis.Similar ideas were already outlined in the past.14,15Forexample the photoinduced charging and dark discharging of a silver core as a means to modulate the surface plasmonband of ... fourth approach, namely plasmonic photocatalysis. The idea of plasmonic photocatalysisis as follows. TiO2 of anatase phase is a semiconductor with a band gap of 3.26 eV,12so near UV irradiation...