Photocatalytic oxidation of methane over silver decorated zinc oxide nanocatalysts

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Chen, Xuxing ^a,b   Li, Yunpeng ^a   Pan, Xiaoyang ^a   Cortie, David ^c   Huang, Xintang ^b   Yi, Zhiguo ^a  

^a FUJIAN INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ON THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER   (China)

^b CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHANE; ETHYLENE; HYDROCARBON; METHANE; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOMATERIAL; PROPANE; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLE;

CATALYSIS; CATALYST; ETHYLENE; HYDROCARBON; INORGANIC COMPOUND; METHANE; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOLYSIS; PROPANE; SILVER; SOLAR RADIATION;

ARTICLE; DEHYDROGENATION; ILLUMINATION; NANOCATALYSIS; NANOCATALYST; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOOXIDATION; QUANTUM YIELD; SIMULATION; SUNLIGHT; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84979633617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12273     Document Type: Article

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