Importance of Plasmonic Heating on Visible Light Driven Photocatalysis of Gold Nanoparticle Decorated Zinc Oxide Nanorods

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Bora, Tanujjal ^a   Zoepfl, David ^b   Dutta, Joydeep ^a,c  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84973349191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep26913     Document Type: Article

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