Fine structural tuning of whereabout and clustering of metal-metal oxide heterostructure for optimal photocatalytic enhancement and stability

Nanoscale

Volumn 6, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 12655-12664

  Gao, Minmin ^a   Peh, Connor Kang Nuo ^a   Pan, Yanlin ^a   Xu, Qing Hua ^a   Ho, Ghim Wei ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHARGE TRANSFER; ENERGY CONVERSION; GOLD; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; STABILITY;

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CONTACT INTERFACE; ENHANCED LIGHT ABSORPTIONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; SHELL THICKNESS; STRUCTURAL STABILITIES; STRUCTURAL TUNING; SYNTHETIC ROUTES;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84908007856     PISSN: 20403364     EISSN: 20403372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4nr03373f     Document Type: Article

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