Thermostable nitrogen-doped HTiNbO5 nanosheets with a high visible-light photocatalytic activity

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 635-647

  Zhai, Zheng ^a   Huang, Yucheng ^a   Xu, Lin ^a   Yang, Xiaoyan ^a   Hu, Chenhui ^a   Zhang, Lihong ^a   Fan, Yining ^a   Hou, Wenhua ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Layered titanoniobate; N doping; Nanosheets; Photodegradation; Visible light

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959597990     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-011-0119-8     Document Type: Article

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