Au nano dumbbells catalyzed the cutting of graphene oxide sheets upon plasmon-enhanced reduction

RSC Advances

Volumn 6, Issue 52, 2016, Pages 46218-46225

  Wang, Xiaotian ^a   Zhu, Mingyun ^a   Fu, Wanlin ^a   Huang, Chengqian ^a   Gu, Qing ^a   Zeng, Tingying Helen ^b   Dai, Yunqian ^a   Sun, Yueming ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Academy for Advanced Research and Development   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; HOT ELECTRONS; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; PLASMONS;

FUTURE APPLICATIONS; LOW COST METHODS; NOVEL STRATEGIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC METHODS; PHOTOCATALYTIC REDUCTION; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO); REDUCING REACTIONS; SURFACE PLASMONIC RESONANCES;

GOLD;

EID: 84970971191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c6ra05888d     Document Type: Article

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