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Hydrogen production from water, or so-called water splitting, by using photocatalysts is intensively studied.

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Tanabe, K. (2022). Applications. In: Plasmonics for Hydrogen Energy. SpringerBriefs in Energy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88275-4_6

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