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Figure 15. Au-Based Plasmonic Heteronanostructures for Water Splitting (A) Plasmon-induced charge separation mechanism in Au-decorated g-C₃N₄ under visible-light irradiation^[95]. Copyright 2022, published by the Elsevier; (B) the distance between the band edge and the Fermi level^[264]. Copyright 2020, published by the Wiley; (C) Plasmonic nanoarchitectures-antenna-reactor, core-shell, and alloy-depicted alongside extinction spectra of Au and Au@Pd nanostructures^[265]. Copyright 2019, published by the Taylor & Francis; (D) Experimental H₂ production rates of Au-decorated Cu_xS₄ nanostructures, showing compositional and LSPR^[267]. Copyright 2024, published by the Springer Nature; (E) FDTD-simulated near-field enhancement spectra and spatial electric-field distributions of Au-based core-shell heterostructures^[268]. Copyright 2022, published by the American Chemical Society; (F) Comparison of light- and dark-driven H₂ evolution for Au@Pd core-shell and core-satellite photocatalysts^[263]. Copyright 2022, published by the Wiley. TEOA: Triethanolamine; E_F: Fermi Leve; LSPR: localized surface plasmon resonance; FDTD: finite-difference time-domain.