Optical properties and catalytic activity of bimetallic gold-silver nanoparticles

Nano Biomedicine and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 258-267

  Feng, Lili ^a   Gao, Guo ^a   Huang, Peng ^a   Wang, Kan ^a   Wang, Xiansong ^a   Luo, Teng ^a   Zhang, Chunlei ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Gold silver alloy nanoparticles; Gold silver core shell nanoparticle; Nanocage; Surface plasmon resonance; Surface enhanced raman scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961146991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21505578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5101/nbe.v2i4.p258-267     Document Type: Review

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