Issue 14, 2014

Advanced nanoarchitectures of silver/silver compound composites for photochemical reactions

Abstract

Silver/silver compound (SSC) composites have received much attention as a type of potential materials in photochemical reactions due to their high efficiency, facile syntheses and availability of raw materials. This article reviews the state-of-the-art progress on the advanced nanoarchitectures of SSC composites. We begin with a survey on the general synthetic strategies for SSC composites, and then step into relatively detailed methods for size and morphology tunable two-component and more delicate multi-component SSC nanostructures. In addition, the electronic structure-related mechanisms of such materials and the recent studies on their stability are summarized. This review also highlights some perspectives on challenges related to the SSC composites and the possible research in the future.

Graphical abstract: Advanced nanoarchitectures of silver/silver compound composites for photochemical reactions

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
27 Nov 2013
Accepted
03 May 2014
First published
08 May 2014

Nanoscale, 2014,6, 7730-7742

Author version available

Advanced nanoarchitectures of silver/silver compound composites for photochemical reactions

M. Long and W. Cai, Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 7730 DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06302J

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