Improve indoor air quality by using titanium dioxide as coating photocatalyses under UV irradiation

Research Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 99-103

  Awadalla, Arafa ^a   Zain, Muhammad Fauzi Mohd ^a   Kadhum, Abdul Amir ^a   Abdalla, Zeinab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Degradation; Efficiency; Malaysia; Pollution; Sources; Technique

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955017496     PISSN: 1815932X     EISSN: 19936079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/rjasci.2011.99.103     Document Type: Article

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