Highly efficient visible light-induced O2 generation by self-Assembled nanohybrids of inorganic nanosheets and polyoxometalate nanoclusters

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gunjakar, Jayavant L ^a   Kim, Tae Woo ^a   Kim, In Young ^a   Lee, Jang Mee ^a   Hwang, Seong Ju ^a  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC COMPOUND; OXYGEN; POLYOXOMETALATE I; TUNGSTEN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POWDER DIFFRACTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

INORGANIC CHEMICALS; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXYGEN; POWDER DIFFRACTION; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84891596628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02080     Document Type: Article

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