Fabrication of a TiO2-BDD heterojunction and its application as a photocatalyst for the simultaneous oxidation of an azo dye and reduction of Cr(VI)

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3791-3796

  Yu, Hongbin ^a   Chen, Shuo ^a   Quan, Xie ^a   Zhao, Huimin ^a   Zhang, Yaobin ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; OXIDATION; PHOTOCATALYSTS; REDUCTION;

KINETIC CONSTANTS; PHOTOCATALYTIC MECHANISM;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

AZO DYE; BORON DOPED DIAMOND; CHROMIC ACID; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; AZO COMPOUND; CHROMIUM; COLORING AGENT; TITANIUM;

AZO DYES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OXIDATION; PHOTOCATALYSTS; REDUCTION;

CATALYSIS; CHROMIUM; DIAMOND; DYE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PHOTOOXIDATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; REACTION KINETICS; REDUCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TITANIUM; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ARTICLE; KINETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AZO COMPOUNDS; CATALYSIS; CHROMIUM; COLORING AGENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TITANIUM;

EID: 43749100103     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es702948e     Document Type: Article

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