Photoinduced electron transfer from semiconductor quantum dots to metal oxide nanoparticles

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-34

  Tvrdy, Kevin ^a,b   Frantsuzov, Pavel A ^b   Kamat, Prashant V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy conversion; Marcus theory; Nanotechnology; Quantum dot sensitized solar cell; Transient absorption spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

METAL OXIDE; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; QUANTUM DOTS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 78651070819     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1011972107     Document Type: Article

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