Fabrication of zinc sulphide hierarchical hollow spheres with photocatalytic property by a mild organic acid-assisted route

Micro and Nano Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 171-174

  Gong, Junyan ^a   Cai, Zhian ^a   Zhang, Dongen ^a   Zhang, Xiaobo ^a   Liu, Chao ^a   Tong, Zhiwei ^a,b  

^a HUAIHAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLLOW SPHERE; MALONIC ACID; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY; RHODAMINE B; STRUCTURE DIRECTING AGENTS; ULTRA-VIOLET; ZINC CHLORIDE; ZINC SULPHIDE;

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; SPHERES; THIOUREAS; UREA; ZINC;

ZINC SULFIDE;

CARBOXYLIC ACID; MALONIC ACID; NANOSPHERE; RHODAMINE; THIOUREA; ZINC CHLORIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; DEGRADATION; NANOFABRICATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 77954041812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/mnl.2010.0036     Document Type: Article

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