Nonepitaxial growth of uniform and precisely size-tunable core/shell nanoparticles and their enhanced plasmon-driven photocatalysis

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Volumn 4, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 7190-7199

  Wang, Mengye ^a,b   Pang, Xinchang ^a,b   Zheng, Dajiang ^b   He, Yanjie ^a   Sun, Lan ^b   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

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CHARACTERIZATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PLANNING; PLASMONS; STARS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CORE/SHELL NANOPARTICLES; FUNCTIONAL NANOPARTICLES; INORGANIC NANOSTRUCTURES; INTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT HARVESTING ENHANCEMENT; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84969835269     PISSN: 20507488     EISSN: 20507496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c6ta01838f     Document Type: Article

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