Boosting Hot Electron-Driven Photocatalysis through Anisotropic Plasmonic Nanoparticles with Hot Spots in Au-TiO2 Nanoarchitectures

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 120, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 11690-11699

  Sousa Castillo, Ana ^a   Comesaña Hermo, Miguel ^a   Rodríguez González, Benito ^a   Pérez Lorenzo, Moisés ^a   Wang, Zhiming ^b   Kong, Xiang Tian ^b,c   Govorov, Alexander O ^c   Correa Duarte, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CATALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GOLD; INFRARED DEVICES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; PLASMONS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CATALYTIC EFFICIENCIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOCHEMICAL RESPONSE; PLASMONIC HOT SPOTS; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

HOT ELECTRONS;

EID: 84973345814     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b02370     Document Type: Article

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