A facile strategy to fabricate plasmonic Au/TiO2 nano-grass films with overlapping visible light-harvesting structures for H2 production from water

Journal of Materials Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2298-2305

  Liu, Enzhou ^a   Fan, Jun ^a   Hu, Xiaoyun ^a   Hu, Yang ^a   Li, Hua ^a   Tang, Chunni ^a   Sun, Lin ^a   Wan, Jun ^a  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FABRICATION; GOLD DEPOSITS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HARVESTING; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; IRRADIATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; PLASMONS; QUENCHING; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIO2 NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CHEMICAL REDUCTION; HYDROTHERMAL PROCESS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; PHOTOCATALYTIC WATER SPLITTING; PHOTOEXCITED ELECTRONS; PLASMONIC PHOTOCATALYSTS; UV AND VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

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EID: 84925538287     PISSN: 00222461     EISSN: 15734803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10853-014-8793-z     Document Type: Article

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