A one-pot method to prepare N-doped titania hollow spheres with high photocatalytic activity under visible light

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 256, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2754-2758

  Ao, Yanhui ^a   Xu, Jingjing ^b   Zhang, Songhe ^a   Fu, Degang ^c  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hollow spheres; N doped; Photocatalysis; Titania; Visible light

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPHERES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UREA; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

HIGH PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; HOLLOW SPHERE; N-DOPED; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; TITANIA; UV-VIS DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 75249096592     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2009.11.023     Document Type: Article

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