Photocatalytic growth and plasmonic properties of Ag nanoparticles on TiO2 films

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 304-314

  Li, Shuai ^a   Tao, Qiang ^a   Li, Da Wei ^a   Liu, Kun ^a   Zhang, Qing Yu ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ag nanoparticles; fluorescence; photocatalytic growth; SERS

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FLUORESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; OSTWALD RIPENING; PLASMONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SURFACE SCATTERING; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

AG NANOPARTICLE; ANISOTROPIC GROWTH; FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; ORIENTED ATTACHMENT; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PLASMONIC PROPERTIES; SERS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS);

SILVER;

EID: 84921905565     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2014.378     Document Type: Article

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