Enhanced visible light photocatalytic performance of CdS sensitized TiO2 nanorod arrays decorated with Au nanoparticles as electron sinks

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Gao, Xin ^a   Liu, Xiangxuan ^a   Zhu, Zuoming ^b   Gao, Ying ^b   Wang, Qingbo ^b   Zhu, Fei ^c   Xie, Zheng ^a,c  

^a XI'AN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Beijing Research Institute of High Technology   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 85018166272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01124-5     Document Type: Article

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