Synthesis of Monometallic (Au and Pd) and Bimetallic (AuPd) Nanoparticles Using Carbon Nitride (C3N4) Quantum Dots via the Photochemical Route for Nitrophenol Reduction

Langmuir

Volumn 32, Issue 39, 2016, Pages 10054-10064

  Fageria, Pragati ^a   Uppala, Shravan ^a   Nazir, Roshan ^a   Gangopadhyay, Subhashis ^a   Chang, Chien Hsiang ^b   Basu, Mrinmoyee ^a   Pande, Surojit ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NITRIDE; CATALYST ACTIVITY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; GOLD; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIGHT SOURCES; METAL IONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; NITRIDES; PALLADIUM; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; REDUCTION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

DISTRIBUTION OF METAL; GRAPHITIC CARBON NITRIDES; NANOPARTICLE (NPS); PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; POWDER X RAY DIFFRACTION; REDUCTION OF METAL IONS; REDUCTION REACTION; X RAY PHOTON SPECTROSCOPY;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84989966588     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b02375     Document Type: Article

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