Tuning the electronic and structural properties of WO3 nanocrystals by varying transition metal tungstate precursors

RSC Advances

Volumn 4, Issue 107, 2014, Pages 62423-62429

  Rahimnejad, Sara ^a,b,c   He, Jing Hui ^a,b   Chen, Wei ^a,b   Wu, Kai ^b,d   Xu, Guo Qin ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CAMPUS FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL ENTERPRISE CREATE   (Singapore)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; AZO DYES; ENAMELS; ENERGY GAP; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HOLE CONCENTRATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN VACANCIES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; PHOTONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSITION METALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE-UV-VIS; ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION; ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; SACRIFICIAL TEMPLATE METHODS; STRUCTURE DIRECTING AGENTS; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING;

TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84912041604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra10650d     Document Type: Article

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