Two novel hierarchical homogeneous nanoarchitectures of tio2 nanorods branched and p25-coated tio2 nanotube arrays and their photocurrent performances

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Hu, Anzheng ^a,b   Cheng, Cuixia ^a   Li, Xin ^a   Jiang, Jian ^a   Ding, Ruimin ^a   Zhu, Jianhui ^a   Wu, Fei ^a   Liu, Jinping ^a   Huang, Xintang ^a  

^a CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; NANORODS; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTOELECTRICITY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOCATALYSIS;

APPLIED POTENTIALS; ELECTRO-CHEMICAL ANODIZATION; HYDROTHERMAL MODIFICATION; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; NANOARCHITECTURES; PHOTO-ELECTRIC CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; TIO2 NANOTUBE ARRAYS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANODIZATIONS; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; SURFACE AREA; TIO; TWO STEP METHOD;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 84255191160     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-91     Document Type: Article

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