Excited-state behavior of luminescent glutathione-protected gold clusters

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1370-1376

  Stamplecoskie, Kevin G ^a   Chen, Yong Siou ^a   Kamat, Prashant V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS; GOLD NANOCLUSTER; METHYL VIOLOGEN; OXIDATION STATE; OXIDIZED STATE; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC REDUCTION; VISIBLE REGION;

EXCITED STATES; GOLD; IODINE; LUMINESCENCE; PEPTIDES;

GOLD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84892739692     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp410856h     Document Type: Article

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