A high performance cobalt-doped ZnO visible light photocatalyst and its photogenerated charge transfer properties

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1144-1152

  Lu, Yongchun ^a   Lin, Yanhong ^a   Wang, Dejun ^a   Wang, Lingling ^a,b   Xie, Tengfeng ^a   Jiang, Tengfei ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jilin University   (China)

Author keywords

photocatalysis; surface photovoltage; visible light irradiation; ZnO:Co

Indexed keywords

EID: 80955142953     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-011-0163-4     Document Type: Article

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