Charge transfer and retention in directly coupled Au-CdSe nanohybrids

Nano Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 88-98

  Gao, Bo ^a   Lin, Yue ^a   Wei, Sijie ^a   Zeng, Jie ^a,b   Liao, Yuan ^a   Chen, Liuguo ^a   Goldfeld, David ^b   Wang, Xiaoping ^a   Luo, Yi ^a   Dong, Zhenchao ^a   Hou, Jianguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

charge retention; charge transfer; Hybrid nanocrystals; time resolved photoluminescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856695699     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-011-0188-8     Document Type: Article

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