Designing the surfaces of semiconductor quantum dots for colloidal photocatalysis

ACS Energy Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1005-1013

  Weiss, Emily A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; ELECTRON AFFINITY; HOLE CONCENTRATION; LIGANDS; NANOCRYSTALS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TUNING;

CATALYTIC SURFACE AREA; COLLOIDAL SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; COVALENT LINKAGE; KINETIC BARRIER; LIGAND EXCHANGES; ORGANIC TRANSFORMATIONS; PROTON COUPLED ELECTRON TRANSFER REACTIONS; REDOX CATALYSTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 85026313831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23808195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00061     Document Type: Review

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