Controlled loading of small Aun clusters (n = 10-39) onto BaLa4Ti4O15 photocatalysts: Toward an understanding of size effect of cocatalyst on water-splitting photocatalytic activity

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 11224-11232

  Negishi, Yuichi ^a,b   Matsuura, Yoshiki ^a   Tomizawa, Ryota ^a   Kurashige, Wataru ^a   Niihori, Yoshiki ^a   Takayama, Tomoaki ^a   Iwase, Akihide ^a   Kudo, Akihiko ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; GOLD COMPOUNDS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; MINIATURE INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

GOLD CLUSTERS; HIGHLY STABLES; IMPROVED ACTIVITIES; MONO-DISPERSE; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; REDUCTION EFFECTS; SIZE EFFECTS; WATER SPLITTING;

LOADING;

EID: 84930225892     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5122432     Document Type: Article

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