Hierarchical synthesis of non-centrosymmetric hybrid nanostructures and enabled plasmon-driven photocatalysis

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Weng, Lin ^a   Zhang, Hui ^b   Govorov, Alexander O ^b   Ouyang, Min ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETERODIMER; HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURE; LEWIS ACID; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL; SILVER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CATALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; CATION EXCHANGE; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ILLUMINATION; KINETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PRODUCTIVITY; REACTION ANALYSIS; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84907300432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5792     Document Type: Article

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