Fabrication of PbS quantum dot doped TiO2 nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1682-1688

  Ratanatawanate, Chalita ^a   Xiong, Chunrong ^a   Balkus Jr , Kenneth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanotubes; PbS; Quantum dots; TiO2; Tunable band gap

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS;

NANOTUBES; PBS; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM DOTS; TIO2; TUNABLE BAND GAP;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

LEAD; LEAD SULFIDE; NANOMATERIAL; NANOTUBE; QUANTUM DOT; SULFIDE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; LEAD; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM DOTS; SULFIDES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM;

EID: 51849117325     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800141e     Document Type: Article

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