Singular characteristics and unique chemical bond activation mechanisms of photocatalytic reactions on plasmonic nanostructures

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1044-1050

  Christopher, Phillip ^a,b   Xin, Hongliang ^a   Marimuthu, Andiappan ^a   Linic, Suljo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND ACTIVATION; CATALYTIC PROCESS; HETEROGENEOUS PHOTOCATALYSIS; LIGHT INTENSITY; METAL SURFACES; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROCESS; PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTIONS; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; POWER-LAW DEPENDENCES; SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTOCATALYST; SHARP CONTRAST; SINGULAR CHARACTERISTICS; THERMAL PROCESS;

CHEMICAL BONDS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; REACTION RATES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84870064917     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3454     Document Type: Article

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