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Photochemical Oxidative Growth of Iridium Oxide Nanoparticles on CdSe@CdS Nanorods
Published on: February 11, 2016
Quantum confinement controlled photocatalytic water splitting by suspended CdSe nanocrystals
Michael A Holmes1, Troy K Townsend, Frank E Osterloh
1Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 16, 2011
Abstract:
The photocatalytic hydrogen production of CdSe nanocrystals (1.75-4.81 nm) in the presence of aqueous sodium sulphite depends exponentially on the bandgap of the particles, confirming that the material's activity is controlled by the degree of quantum confinement.
