Simple growth of faceted Au-ZnO hetero-nanostructures on silicon substrates (nanowires and triangular nanoflakes): A shape and defect driven enhanced photocatalytic performance under visible light

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 9486-9496

  Ghosh, Arnab ^a   Guha, Puspendu ^a   Samantara, Aneeya K ^b   Jena, Bikash Kumar ^b   Bar, Rajshekhar ^c   Ray, Samit ^c   Satyam, Parlapalli V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (India)

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

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

dye degradation; hetero nanostructures; oxygen defects; photocatalyst; photoelectrochemistry; triangular nanoflakes

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DEFECT DENSITY; DEFECTS; GOLD; LIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOWIRES; OXYGEN; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; RATE CONSTANTS; REUSABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; ZINC OXIDE;

DYE DEGRADATION; HETERO-NANOSTRUCTURES; NANO-FLAKES; OXYGEN DEFECT; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMISTRY;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 84929379644     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b00634     Document Type: Article

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