Fabrication of Au/graphene-wrapped ZnO-nanoparticle-assembled hollow spheres with effective photoinduced charge transfer for photocatalysis

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3524-3531

  Khoa, Nguyen Tri ^a   Kim, Soon Wook ^a   Yoo, Dae Hwang ^a   Cho, Shinuk ^a   Kim, Eui Jung ^a   Hahn, Sung Hong ^a  

^a University of Ulsan   (South Korea)

Author keywords

charge transfer; gold nanoparticle; graphene oxide; hierarchical aggregate; photoinduced reactivity; zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHARGE TRANSFER; EFFICIENCY; GOLD COMPOUNDS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE OXIDE; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE; SPHERES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZINC OXIDE; ZNO NANOPARTICLES;

CHARGE TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION; FAST ELECTRON TRANSFER; PHOTO-INDUCED; PHOTOCATALYTIC EFFICIENCY; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE TRANSFER; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO); TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84923239581     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b00152     Document Type: Article

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