Preparation of cerium and nitrogen co-doped titania hollow spheres with enhanced visible light photocatalytic performance

Powder Technology

Volumn 210, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 203-207

  Wang, Chao ^a   Ao, Yanhui ^a   Wang, Peifang ^a   Hou, Jun ^a   Qian, Jin ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hollow sphere; N,Ce codoped; Photocatalysis; Titania; X 3B

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; CARBON SPHERES; CE CONTENTS; CO-DOPED; HOLLOW SPHERE; LOW TEMPERATURES; N,CE-CODOPED; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY; PHYSICAL STRUCTURES; TITANIA; TITANIA HOLLOW SPHERES; TITANIA NANOPARTICLES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; UV-VIS DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION; X-3B;

CERIUM; DOPING (ADDITIVES); NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

SPHERES;

CERIUM; DYE; NANOSPHERE; NITROGEN; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; IRRADIATION; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; NANOFABRICATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY;

EID: 79955890798     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2011.03.015     Document Type: Article

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