Synergic influence of reverse micelle confinement on the enhancement in photoinduced electron transfer to and from carbon nanoparticles

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 13887-13892

  Mondal, Somen ^a   Das, Tarasankar ^a   Maity, Arnab ^a   Seth, Sourav Kanti ^a   Purkayastha, Pradipta ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FREE RADICAL REACTIONS; MICELLES; NANOPARTICLES;

CARBON NANO-PARTICLES; ELECTRON DONOR-ACCEPTOR SYSTEMS; ELECTRON TRANSFER DYNAMICS; LIGHT ENERGY CONVERSION; NONPOLAR ENVIRONMENT; PHOTO-INDUCED ELECTRON TRANSFER; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 84934915194     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b02026     Document Type: Article

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