Templated dewetting: designing entirely self-organized platforms for photocatalysis

Chemical Science

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 6865-6886

  Altomare, Marco ^a   Nguyen, Nhat Truong ^a   Schmuki, Patrik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; FABRICATION; GREEN MANUFACTURING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOS DEVICES; NANOMAGNETICS; OXIDE MINERALS; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES; SUBSTRATES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CATALYTIC MATERIALS; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; LIMITED ATTENTIONS; METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR; PHOTOCATALYTIC EFFICIENCY; SELF-ORDERING PROCESS; TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS; TIO2 NANOTUBE ARRAYS;

METALS;

EID: 84995700070     PISSN: 20416520     EISSN: 20416539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/C6SC02555B     Document Type: Article

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