Unconventional Route to Hairy Plasmonic/Semiconductor Core/Shell Nanoparticles with Precisely Controlled Dimensions and Their Use in Solar Energy Conversion

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 5271-5278

  Zheng, Dajiang ^a,b   Pang, Xinchang ^a   Wang, Mengye ^a,b   He, Yanjie ^a   Lin, Changjian ^b   Lin, Zhiqun ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CHAINS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FREE RADICAL REACTIONS; HYDROPHOBICITY; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; PLASTIC COATINGS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; STARS; STYRENE; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

BIFUNCTIONAL NANOPARTICLES; CORE/SHELL NANOPARTICLES; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FAST ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT HARVESTING ENHANCEMENT; POLY(4-VINYL PYRIDINE); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

GOLD;

EID: 84939188696     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b01422     Document Type: Article

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