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Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Scaffolds for Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells. Capture and Transport of Photogenerated Electrons Nano Lett., 7 (3), 676 -680, 2007. doi:10.1021/nl0627238   
Nanowork   http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=1535.php  (pdf file)
MIT Technical review  http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/18259/  (pdf file)
Nanotechweb news  http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/3/7?alert=1 (pdf file)


232nd national meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco Press Release
Solar energy: Charged for the future
Carbon nanotubes could boost efficiency of solar cells
Economist (pdf file)    .....+ Several news papers around the world.

 Quantum Dot Solar Cells.  Harvesting Light Energy with CdSe Nanocrystals Molecularly Linked to Mesoscopic TiO2 Films. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006. 128, 2385-2393.
Heart Cut (An ACS Online Publication) April 3 2006
Laser Focus World April 2006 issue  (pdf file)

Materials Today-Nanotoday Supplement  New Light on CNT's -Energy Generation
Materials Today (April 2004) C60 Boosts Performance of Fuel Cells (See Page 9)

ALCHEMIST : Irradiate First, Bioremediate Next
Reactive Reports: Fullerenes on Film
Daily InScights: Fighting Toxins With Radiation
Science Daily:Mixing Radiation, Minerals, Toxic Waste could be cleanup boon
Innovations Report


coverKamat, P. V. Meeting the Clean Energy Demand: Nanostructure Architectures for Solar Energy Conversion, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2007. 111 2834 - 2860.








 
coverHasobe, T.; Fukuzumi, S.; Hattori, S.; Kamat, P. V. Shape- and Functionality-Controlled Organization of TiO2-Porphyrin-C60 Assembly for Improved Performance of Photochemical Solar Cells, Chemistry, Asian J., 2007. 2 265-272.






coverKamat, P. V. Harvesting photons with carbon nanotubes, Nanotoday, 2006. 1 20-27.







http://www.nd.edu/%7Epkamat/images/jpcaquinolinDrew, K.; Girishkumar, G.; Vinodgopal, K.; Kamat, P.V., Boosting the Fuel Cell Performance with a Semiconductor Photocatalyst. TiO2/Pt-Ru Hybrid Catalyst for Methanol Oxidation. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2005. 109, 11851 - 11857.








jpcaquinoline2005Nicolaescu, A.R.; Wiest, O.; Kamat, P.V., Mechanistic pathways of the hydroxyl radical reactions of quinoline. 
1. Identification, distribution and yields of hydroxylated products. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2005. 109, 2822-2828. and 
Mechanistic pathways of the hydroxyl radical reactions of quinoline. 2. Computational analysis of.OH attack at C-atoms. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2005. 109, 2829-2835.







JPCA coverPeller, J., Wiest, O. and Kamat, P. V., Hydroxyl Radical's Role in the Remediation of a Common Herbicide, 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) -Feature Article. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2004, 108, 10925-10933.
Featured cover story of J. Phys. Chem. A, Dec16, 2004 issu – an ACS publication
 






George Thomas, K., Barazzouk, S., Ipe, B. I., Shibu Joseph, S. T. and Kamat, P. V., Unidirectional Plasmon Coupling through Longitudinal  Self-assembly of Gold Nanorods. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2004, 108, 13066-13068.
 jpcnanorodFeatured cover story of J. Phys. Chem. B – an ACS publication

P. V. Kamat, R. Huehn and R. Nicolaescu. A Sense and Shoot Approach for Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Contaminants in Water. J. Phys. Chem. B 106, 788-794 (2002).

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Also featuredin Nature Science Update, Scientific American and ALCHEMIST


Cited as one of the major developments of the year 2001 in the National Nanotechnolgy Initiative and its Implementation Plan (see page 29 and 41) submitted by National Science and Technology Council, Committee on Technology Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology.
Detailed Technical Report Associated with the Supplemental Report to the President's FY 2003 Budget
 




  P. A. Sant and P. V. Kamat. Inter-Particle Electron Transfer between Size-Quantized CdS and TiO2 Semiconductor Nanoclusters. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 4, 198-203 (2002).

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P. V. Kamat. Photochemical and photocatalytic aspects of metal nanoparticles. J. Phys. Chem. B 106, 7729-7744 (2002).

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An overview of the photochemical behavior of metal nanoparticles. An excellent resource for recent advances and citations of related research.




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