Patent ID: 11958043
Assignee: WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  C  Y | IPC B  C

Claim 9:
10. A method of catalyzing a reaction, comprising:
forming an alloyed multicomponent photocatalyst pre-cursor, by a method comprising:
inducing precipitation from a pre-cursor solution comprising a pre-cursor of a support material, a pre-cursor of a plasmonic material, and a pre-cursor of a reactive component to form co-precipitated particles of the alloyed multicomponent photocatalyst pre-cursor; and
collecting the alloyed multicomponent photocatalyst pre-cursor;

loading the alloyed multicomponent photocatalyst pre-cursor into a high-temperature reaction chamber;
annealing the loaded alloyed multicomponent photocatalyst to form an alloyed multicomponent photocatalyst comprising a reactive component optically, thermally, or electronically coupled to a plasmonic material;
feeding reactants into the reaction chamber; and
illuminating the alloyed multicomponent photocatalyst in the reaction chamber with a light source having a wavelength overlapping a plasmon resonance of the plasmonic material.