Light-concentrating plasmonic au superstructures with significantly visible-light-enhanced catalytic performance

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 8200-8208

  Yang, Jinhu ^a,b   Li, Ying ^a   Zu, Lianhai ^a   Tong, Lianming ^c   Liu, Guanglei ^a   Qin, Yao ^b   Shi, Donglu ^b,d  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^d 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Au plasmonic superstructures; light concentration; noble metal; visible light enhanced catalytic reactions

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; GOLD; HOT ELECTRONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS; PRECIOUS METALS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

CATALYTIC EFFICIENCIES; CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; CATALYTIC REACTIONS; LIGHT CONCENTRATION; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE EFFECTS; SYNTHETIC STRATEGIES; VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORPTION;

LIGHT;

EID: 84928485260     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01078     Document Type: Article

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