Plasmonic silver quantum dots coupled with hierarchical TiO2 nanotube arrays photoelectrodes for efficient visible-light photoelectrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lian, Zichao ^a   Wang, Wenchao ^a   Xiao, Shuning ^a   Li, Xin ^a   Cui, Yingying ^a   Zhang, Dieqing ^a   Li, Guisheng ^a   Li, Hexing ^a  

^a SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84931275496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10461     Document Type: Article

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