Highly efficient photothermal effect by atomic-thickness confinement in two-dimensional ZrNCl nanosheets

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1683-1691

  Feng, Feng ^a   Guo, Hongyan ^a   Li, Dianqi ^a   Wu, Changzheng ^a   Wu, Junchi ^a   Zhang, Wenshuai ^b   Fan, Shaojuan ^b   Yang, Yuchen ^c   Wu, Xiaojun ^a   Yang, Jinlong ^a   Ye, Bangjiao ^b   Xie, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

electron phonon interaction; energy conversion; photothermal effect; quantum confinement; ultrathin nanosheets

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONS; ENERGY CONVERSION; GRAPHENE; NANOSHEETS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

ELECTRON PHONON COUPLINGS; INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOTO-THERMAL CONVERSIONS; PHOTOTHERMAL EFFECTS; RELAXATION ENERGIES; SYNERGETIC EFFECT; ULTRATHIN NANOSHEETS; UV ILLUMINATIONS;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84923407529     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn506473m     Document Type: Article

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