Optical and photocatalytic properties of arginine-stabilized cadmium sulfide quantum dots

Materials Letters

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 486-489

  Guo, Yuming ^a   Wang, Lingling ^a   Yang, Lin ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a   Jiang, Lili ^a   Ma, Xiaoming ^a  

^a HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arginine; Cadmium sulfide; Nanomaterials; Photocatalysis; Semiconductors

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ARGININE; CADMIUM; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLLUTION; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CADMIUM SULFIDE QUANTUM DOTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY; STABILIZING AGENTS; STRONG ABSORPTIONS; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

CADMIUM SULFIDE;

EID: 78649320705     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2010.10.057     Document Type: Article

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