1. Academic contributions
Development of environmentally benign, cheap and easily available supported photocatalyst, which can work even under solar light irradiation, will be one of the expected outcomes. Furthermore, the activity of the photocatalytic reaction will be enhanced through the materials design on the precise local structure of the hybrid catalysts supported by the detailed characterization of the reaction mechanism by various in-situ spectroscopic measurements (Visible-Raman, UV-Vis and Photoluminescence). The advantages of the present materials design are possible systematic expansion of the materials variation; shape and size variation of both particle and pore, possible control of aspect ratio of low dimensionally structured pore and particle, which may lead systematic development for further optimization of materials performances. Significant impacts on materials chemistry, photochemistry, catalyst chemistry, nanochemistry are expected.