Efficient photocatalytic decomposition of aqueous NH3 using a simple mesoporous semiconductor thin film with external quantum efficiency of 35 (= 3.5 × 103%) based on total incident UV light

Catalysis Letters

Volumn 137, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 156-162

  Kaneko, Masao ^a   Ueno, Hirohito ^a   Saito, Rie ^b   Nemoto, Junichi ^a  

^a Institute of Biophotochemonics Co Ltd   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auto oxidative chain reaction; Mesoporous TiO2,Ammonia photodecomposition; Quantum efficiency

Indexed keywords

CHAIN REACTION; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; MESOPOROUS; MESOPOROUS TIO; OXIDATIVE DECOMPOSITION; PHOTO-DECOMPOSITION; PHOTOCATALYTIC DECOMPOSITION; SEMICONDUCTOR THIN FILMS; SUBMODULES; TIO; TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE; UV LIGHT;

AMMONIA; THIN FILMS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 77956220131     PISSN: 1011372X     EISSN: 1572879X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10562-010-0344-x     Document Type: Article

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