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Ziyou Zhou1, Gregory J Bedwell, Rui Li
1Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA. agupta@mint.ua.edu.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
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Abstract:
Plasmonic photocatalytic nanostructures have been fabricated under mild conditions (room temperature aqueous solution) using genetically engineered bacteriophage P22 virus-like particles (VLP) as a nano-platform. The photodegradation of methylene blue by CdS photocatalyst confined inside VLP can be significantly enhanced by the controlled deposition of gold nanoparticles on the outer shell of VLP-CdS.
