Porous Au-Ag Alloy Particles Inlaid AgCl Membranes As Versatile Plasmonic Catalytic Interfaces with Simultaneous, in Situ SERS Monitoring

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 33, 2015, Pages 18491-18500

  Cao, Qi ^a,c,d   Yuan, Kaiping ^a   Liu, Qinghe ^a   Liang, Chongyun ^a   Wang, Xiang ^b,c   Cheng, Yi Feng ^a   Li, Qingqing ^a   Wang, Min ^a   Che, Renchao ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Au Ag alloy; catalysis; persistent organic pollutants; photocatalysis; SERS monitoring

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; LASER EXCITATION; LIGHT; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PLASMONS; POLLUTION; POLLUTION DETECTION; PRECIOUS METALS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILVER ALLOYS; SILVER HALIDES;

AU-AG ALLOYS; COST-EFFECTIVE FABRICATION; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT (POP); PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

SILVER;

EID: 84940472153     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b04769     Document Type: Article

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