Electron Transfer Rate vs Recombination Losses in Photocatalytic H2 Generation on Pt-Decorated CdS Nanorods

ACS Energy Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1137-1142

  Simon, Thomas ^a,b   Carlson, Michael T ^a,b   Stolarczyk, Jacek K ^a,b   Feldmann, Jochen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NANOSYSTEMS INITIATIVE MUNICH NIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOCATALYSTS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

CADMIUM CHALCOGENIDES; ELECTRON TRANSFER RATES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PLATINUM NANO-PARTICLES; RECOMBINATION LOSS; RECOMBINATION RATE; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; SOLAR-TO-HYDROGEN CONVERSIONS;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85016570103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23808195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00468     Document Type: Article

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