Enhanced photocatalytic activity and charge carrier dynamics of hetero-structured organic-inorganic nano-photocatalysts

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 7970-7978

  Nanda, Kamala K ^a,b   Swain, Smrutirekha ^a,b   Satpati, Biswarup ^c   Besra, Laxmidhar ^a,b   Mishra, Biswajit ^a   Chaudhary, Yatendra S ^a,b  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF MINERALS AND MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b ACADEMY OF SCIENTIFIC AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH ACSIR   (India)

^c SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

heterostructure; photocatalysis; photoelectrochemical water splitting; time resolved photoluminescence

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; LOADING; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

CHARGE CARRIER DYNAMICS; CHEMICAL-BATH DEPOSITION; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTRUM; HETEROSTRUCTURE; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; SOLAR-HYDROGEN GENERATION; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

CADMIUM SULFIDE;

EID: 84928555524     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b00022     Document Type: Article

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