Synthesis of supported silver nano-spheres on zinc oxide nanorods for visible light photocatalytic applications

Materials Research Bulletin

Volumn 63, Issue , 2015, Pages 134-140

  Saoud, Khaled ^a   Alsoubaihi, Rola ^b   Bensalah, Nasr ^c   Bora, Tanujjal ^d   Bertino, Massimo ^b   Dutta, Joydeep ^d  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY IN QATAR   (Qatar)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^d SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Metal semiconductor composite; Photocatalysis; Silver nanoparticles; Supported catalyst; ZnO nanorods

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LIGHT; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOCATALYSTS; NANORODS; NANOSPHERES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; PLASMONS; SILVER METALLOGRAPHY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; ZINC OXIDE; ZNO NANOPARTICLES;

DEPOSITION PRECIPITATION; METAL SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOTOCATALYTIC APPLICATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC EFFICIENCY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE EFFECTS; VISIBLE LIGHT PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION; ZNO NANOROD;

SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84918553605     PISSN: 00255408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.materresbull.2014.12.001     Document Type: Article

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