Growth and fragmentation of silver nanoparticles in their synthesis with a fs laser and CW light by photo-sensitization with benzophenone

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 154-159

  Eustis, Susie ^a   Krylova, Galina ^b   Eremenko, Anna ^b   Smirnova, Natalie ^b   Schill, Alexander W ^a   El Sayed, Mostafa ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF SURFACE CHEMISTRY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOPHENONE; MERCURY; NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; CONTROLLED STUDY; LASER; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 13444278944     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b411488d     Document Type: Article

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