Nanostructured Cu/ZnO coupled composites: Toward tunable Cu nanoparticle sizes and plasmon absorption

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 10780-10787

  Tan, Zhi Yi ^a   Yong, Doreen Wei Ying ^a   Zhang, Zhihua ^b   Low, Hong Yee ^c   Chen, Luwei ^d   Chin, Wee Shong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b BASF South East Asia ^*  (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC INTERACTIONS; ETHANOL STEAM REFORMING; HIGH REACTION TEMPERATURES; LINEAR CORRELATION; NANOSTRUCTURED CU; PLASMON ABSORPTION; POLY(VINYL PYRROLIDONE); SYNTHESIZED MATERIALS;

DEPOSITS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; PLASMONS; STEAM REFORMING; ZINC OXIDE;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84878135856     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4021855     Document Type: Article

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