Characterization and visible light photocatalytic properties of nanocrystalline TiO2 synthesized by reactive plasma processing

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1540-1549

  Vijay, M ^a   Selvarajan, V ^a   Sreekumar, K P ^b   Yu, Jiaguo ^c   Liu, Shengwei ^c   Ananthapadmanabhan, P V ^b  

^a BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Enhanced optical absorbance; Nanostructures; Photocatalytic activity; Reactive plasma synthesis; Surface properties; Titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; CATALYTIC ACTIVITY; DIFFUSED REFLECTANCE; ENHANCED OPTICAL ABSORBANCE; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; METHYLENE BLUE DYE; NANO-SIZED PARTICLES; NANOCRYSTALLINE TIO; NANOCRYSTALLINE TITANIA; NANOCRYSTALLINE TITANIUM OXIDE; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY; PRECURSOR POWDER; REACTIVE PLASMA SYNTHESIS; REACTIVE PLASMAS; RUTILE PHASIS; SYNTHESIZED POWDER; TIO; UV IRRADIATION; UV-VISIBLE; VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE REGION;

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; PLASMA DEVICES; PLASMAS; POWDERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES; TRACE ANALYSIS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

NANOCRYSTALLINE POWDERS;

EID: 67649397301     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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