Synthesis of Au-decorated V2O5@ZnO heteronanostructures and enhanced plasmonic photocatalytic activity

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 14851-14860

  Yin, Haihong ^a,b   Yu, Ke ^a   Song, Changqing ^a,b   Huang, Rong ^a   Zhu, Ziqiang ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

heteronanostructures; photocatalysis; plasmonic properties; V2O5; ZnO

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; GOLD; GOLD METALLOGRAPHY; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; PLASMONICS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; THERMAL EVAPORATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; VANADIUM PENTOXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

HETERO-NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOCATALYTIC BEHAVIORS; PHOTODEGRADATION OF METHYLENE BLUE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; PLASMONIC PHOTOCATALYSTS; PLASMONIC PROPERTIES; UV-VIS ABSORPTION SPECTRA; V2O5;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84907833962     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501549n     Document Type: Article

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