Capture, store, and discharge. Shuttling photogenerated electrons across TiO2-silver interface

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 7369-7376

  Takai, Azusa ^a   Kamat, Prashant V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

electron storage; photocatalysts; plasmon resonance; semiconductor metal composite; silver nanoparticles; solar energy conversion; TiO2

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON STORAGE; PLASMON RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR METALS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; TIO;

ELECTRONS; ENERGY CONVERSION; IRRADIATION; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PLASMONS; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

SILVER;

SILVER; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ELECTRONS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TITANIUM; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 80053310706     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn202294b     Document Type: Article

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