Plasmonic photocatalysis

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Xuming ^a   Chen, Yu Lim ^b   Liu, Ru Shi ^b   Tsai, Din Ping ^b,c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL NANOPARTICLE;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; REVIEW;

CATALYSIS; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; PHYSICAL PROCESSES;

EID: 84875749707     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/76/4/046401     Document Type: Article

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