3D self-assembly of aluminium nanoparticles for plasmon-enhanced solar desalination

Nature Photonics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 393-398

  Zhou, Lin ^a,b   Tan, Yingling ^a   Wang, Jingyang ^a   Xu, Weichao ^a   Yuan, Ye ^a   Cai, Wenshan ^c   Zhu, Shining ^a   Zhu, Jia ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING XIAOZHUANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

3D SELF-ASSEMBLY; LIGHT-HARVESTING; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTO DETECTION; POROUS MEMBRANES; SCALABLE PRODUCTION; SOLAR DESALINATION; VARIOUS ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS;

DESALINATION;

EID: 84992296726     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2016.75     Document Type: Article

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