Photocatalytic hydrogen production with tunable nanorod heterostructures

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1051-1054

  Amirav, Lilac ^a,b   Alivisatos, A Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK REACTION; CADMIUM SELENIDES; CDS; DELOCALIZED ELECTRON; HETEROSTRUCTURES; LIGHT ILLUMINATION; LONG LASTING; METAL TIP; MULTICOMPONENTS; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; PHYSICAL LENGTH; PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN; SEED SIZE;

CADMIUM; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; GAS PRODUCERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANORODS; PLATINUM; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; SEED;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 77950555311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz100075c     Document Type: Article

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