Carbon dot loading and TiO2 nanorod length dependence of photoelectrochemical properties in carbon dot/TiO2 nanorod array nanocomposites

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4883-4890

  Bian, Juncao ^a   Huang, Chao ^a   Wang, Lingyun ^a   Hung, Takfu ^a   Daoud, Walid A ^a   Zhang, Ruiqin ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

carbon dots; length; loading; photoanode

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANORODS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CARBON DOTS; INCIDENT PHOTON-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; LENGTH; NANO-ROD ARRAYS; PHOTO-ANODES; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE AGGREGATION;

LOADING;

EID: 84898430498     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am4059183     Document Type: Article

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