Photoelectrochemical Conversion from Graphitic C3N4 Quantum Dot Decorated Semiconductor Nanowires

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 20, 2016, Pages 12772-12779

  An, Tiance ^a   Tang, Jing ^a   Zhang, Yueyu ^a   Quan, Yingzhou ^a   Gong, Xingao ^a   Al Enizi, Abdullah M ^b   Elzatahry, Ahmed A ^c   Zhang, Lijuan ^a   Zheng, Gengfeng ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c Qatar University   (Qatar)

Author keywords

carbon nitride quantum dot; chemical vapor deposition; photoelectrochemical conversion; photoluminescence; TiO2 nanowires

Indexed keywords

CARBON NITRIDE; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOWIRES; NITRIDES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ENERGY APPLICATIONS; GRAPHITIC CARBON NITRIDES; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMICAL CONVERSIONS; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; SIMULATED SOLAR LIGHT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84973571014     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b01534     Document Type: Article

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