Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 into Methanol over Ag/TiO2 Nanocomposites Enhanced by Surface Plasmon Resonance

Plasmonics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 61-70

  Liu, Enzhou ^a   Kang, Limin ^a   Wu, Feng ^a   Sun, Tao ^b   Hu, Xiaoyun ^a   Yang, Yuhao ^a   Liu, Hanchen ^c   Fan, Jun ^a  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c XI'AN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ag nanoparticles; Methanol; Photocatalytic mechanism; Photocatalytic reduction of CO2; Surface plasmon resonance; Titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895059677     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-013-9598-7     Document Type: Article

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