Photoinduced charge separation and recombination processes in CdSe quantum dot and graphene oxide composites with methylene blue as linker

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 2919-2925

  Jing, Pengtao ^a,c   Ji, Wenyu ^a   Yuan, Xi ^a,b   Ikezawa, Michio ^c   Zhang, Ligong ^a   Li, Haibo ^d   Zhao, Jialong ^a,d   Masumoto, Yasuaki ^c  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d JILIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

graphene oxide; photoinduced charge separation; quantum dots; transient absorption

Indexed keywords

CHARGE RECOMBINATION PROCESS; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHENE OXIDES; GROUND STATE BLEACHING; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE SEPARATION; RECOMBINATION PROCESS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTRA;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; FREE RADICAL REACTIONS; GRAPHENE; MOLECULES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

SEPARATION;

EID: 84883761717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz401460j     Document Type: Article

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