Ubiquitous element approach to plasmonic enhanced photocatalytic water splitting: The case of Ti@TiO2 core-shell nanostructure

Nanotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 31, 2014, Pages

  Pihosh, Yuriy ^a   Turkevych, Ivan ^b   Mawatari, Kazuma ^a   Fukuda, Nobuko ^c   Ohta, Ryoichi ^a   Tosa, Masahiro ^b   Shimamura, Kiyoshi ^b   Villora, Encarnacion G ^b   Kitamori, Takehiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

core shell nanostructures; nanorods; plasmonic photocatalysis; solar water splitting

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANORODS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PLASMONS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CORE-SHELL NANOSTRUCTURES; DEVICE FUNCTIONALITY; NEW APPROACHES; OXIDE LAYER; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC WATER SPLITTING; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING; TIO;

TITANIUM;

EID: 84904625317     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/25/31/315402     Document Type: Article

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