Carbon quantum dots and applications in photocatalytic energy conversion

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 8363-8376

  Fernando, K A Shiral ^a   Sahu, Sushant ^b   Liu, Yamin ^b   Lewis, William K ^c   Guliants, Elena A ^a   Jafariyan, Amirhossein ^b   Wang, Ping ^b   Bunker, Christopher E ^c   Sun, Ya Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon dots; CO2< inf> photoreduction; graphene quantum dots; photocatalysts; quantum dots; water splitting

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; GRAPHENE; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; POLLUTION CONTROL; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT;

CARBON DIOXIDE REDUCTION; CARBON DOTS; CARBON NANO-PARTICLES; NANOSCALE PARTICLES; PHOTO-REDUCTION; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; SURFACE PASSIVATION; WATER SPLITTING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84928796501     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b00448     Document Type: Article

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