A facile wet chemical route to prepare ZnO/TiO2 nanotube composites and their photocatalytic activities

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1278-1287

  Zhu, Lei ^a   China, Guocong Liu ^b   Duan, Xuechen ^c   Zhang, Zhi Jian ^c  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c YULIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED DEPOSITION; ATOM RATIO; AVERAGE SIZE; BRUNAUER EMMETT TELLERS; ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; ETHYLENE DIAMINE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; HEXAGONAL WURTZITE; INTERFACIAL CHARGE TRANSFER; METHYL ORANGE; NANOTUBE COMPOSITES; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; SEDIMENTATION RATES; TIO; ULTRAVIOLET-VISIBLE SPECTRA; WET CHEMICAL ROUTE; ZNO; ZNO/TIO;

AZO DYES; CHARGE TRANSFER; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ION EXCHANGE; NANOTUBES; RECYCLING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

COMPLEXATION;

EID: 77957945960     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2010.0172     Document Type: Article

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