Plasmon resonant enhancement of photocatalytic water splitting under visible illumination

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1111-1116

  Liu, Zuwei ^b   Hou, Wenbo ^b   Pavaskar, Prathamesh ^a   Aykol, Mehmet ^a   Cronin, Stephen B ^a,b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

anodic titanium oxide; enhancement; FDTD; photocatalysis; photocatalytic; Plasmonic; water splitting

Indexed keywords

ANODIC TITANIUM OXIDES; ENHANCEMENT; FDTD; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PLASMONIC; WATER SPLITTING;

ANODIC OXIDATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM OXIDES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

PLASMONS;

EID: 79952605851     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl104005n     Document Type: Article

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