Light-Induced in Situ Transformation of Metal Clusters to Metal Nanocrystals for Photocatalysis

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 51, 2015, Pages 28105-28109

  Xiao, Fang Xing ^a   Zeng, Zhiping ^a   Hsu, Shao Hui ^a   Hung, Sung Fu ^b   Chen, Hao Ming ^b   Liu, Bin ^b  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

metal clusters; metal nanocrystals; photocatalysis; TiO2 nanotube arrays; transformation

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; GOLD; LIGHT; METALS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; YARN;

METAL CLUSTER; METAL NANOCRYSTALS; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; SIMULATED SOLAR LIGHT; SITU TRANSFORMATION; SYNERGISTIC INTERACTION; TRANSFORMATION; VISIBLE-LIGHT-DRIVEN;

GOLD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84952881564     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b09091     Document Type: Article

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