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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
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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 (
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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 (
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Materials Today-Nanotoday
Supplement New Light on CNT's -Energy Generation
Materials Today (April 2004) C60
Boosts Performance of Fuel Cells (See Page 9)
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on Film
Daily InScights: Fighting
Toxins With Radiation
Science Daily:Mixing
Radiation, Minerals, Toxic Waste could be cleanup boon
Innovations Report
Kamat, P. V. Meeting the Clean Energy Demand: Nanostructure Architectures for Solar Energy Conversion,
J. Phys. Chem. C, 2007. 111 2834 - 2860.
Hasobe, 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.
Kamat, P. V. Harvesting photons with carbon nanotubes,
Nanotoday, 2006. 1 20-27.
Drew, 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.
Nicolaescu, 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
2
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.
Peller, 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.
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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.
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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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Update, Scientific
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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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CHEM CHEM PHYS – a Royal Society of Chemistry Publication
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
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