Using metal nanostructures to form hydrocarbons from carbon dioxide, water and sunlight

AIP Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Cong ^a   Shen, Mengyan ^a   Huo, Haibin ^a   Ren, Haizhou ^a   Johnson, Michael ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATES; COBALT; HYDROCARBONS; MOLECULES; NANOSTRUCTURES; SURFACE PLASMONS;

FOCUSING EFFECT; GLASS CHAMBERS; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURE SURFACE; PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; SURFACE PLASMON EXCITATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84855312565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3657847     Document Type: Article

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