Employing a photosynthetic antenna complex to interfacial electron transfer on ZnO quantum dot

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 858-862

  Verma, Sandeep ^a   Gupta, Alka ^a   Sainis, Jayashree K ^a   Ghosh, Hirendra N ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPHYCOCYANIN; ANTENNA COMPLEXES; CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; ELECTRON TRANSFER PROCESS; ELECTRON-TRANSFER; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY-TRANSPORT; INTERFACIAL ELECTRON TRANSFER; PHYCOCYANIN; POSITIVE CHARGES; QUANTUM DOT; SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACES; TRANSIENT EMISSIONS; ZNO;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ANTENNAS; CHROMOPHORES; DIRECT INJECTION; ELECTRON INJECTION; ELECTRONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; ZINC OXIDE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 79955503135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz2002474     Document Type: Article

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