Review Reports - Progress in the Utilization Efficiency Improvement of Hot Carriers in Plasmon-Mediated Heterostructure Photocatalysis

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors present the review work on Progress in utilization efficiency improvement of hot carriers in plasmon-mediated heterostructure photocatalysis. The work is well written and organized. However, I would like to know the opinion of the authors on the similar review published by Szunerits et al in Materials journal (2019)? It is not cited in the present work. More examples from the catalysis would be appreciated. H2 production or dye decomposition are not the only one processes in photocatalysis where the hot carriers are used. Moreover, some critical discussion should be provided. For example for the 3.1.3 section. The difference in activity under visible light illumination for Au/TiO2 and 3D array is not sufficient to conclude the superiority of the 3D array. Moreover, the difference is constant during the reaction time which indicates that it is more the problem of analysis and not the structure. In addition some moderate English changes are required. Taking all these aspects into account I recommend this work for publication after minor revision.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer 1,

We thank very much for Reviewer 1’s recommendation. These valuable suggestions provided by Reviewer 1 have been considered carefully. We have also made a point-by-point response to the review comments provided by Reviewer 1.

Thank you very much for your consideration!

Best regards,

Sincerely

Prof. Tong Zhang

School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University

Sipailou 2, Nanjing, 210096, People’s Republic of China

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Reviewer 2 Report

In this review, Zhang et al. discuss the recent developments in designing the efficient photocatalysis by considering the effect of plasmon-induced hot carriers. The manuscript is well written and authors have adequately summarized the developments in the field.

I suggest authors to include following recent articles:

ACS Nano, 2017, 11 (10), pp 10281–10288; ACS Nano, 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b01818; ACS Nano, 2019, 13 (2), pp 2114–2126; ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (8), pp 7554–7561; ACS Nano, 2017, 11 (4), pp 3485–3495; ACS Nano, 2019, 13 (4), pp 4347–4353; ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (6), pp 5848–5855; ACS Nano, 2017, 11 (1), pp 968–974; Nano Lett., 2018, 18 (7), pp 4370–4376; Nano Lett., 2018, 18 (8), pp 4914–4921; Nano Lett., 2018, 18 (11), pp 6740–6749; Nano Lett., 2018, 18 (4), pp 2189–2194