Mineralogical and optical characterization of SiO 2-, N-, and SiO 2/N-Co-doped titania nanopowders

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1709-1716

  Tobaldi, David M ^a,e   Gao, Lian ^b   Gualtieri, Alessandro F ^a   Škapin, Andrijana Sever ^c   Tucci, Antonella ^d   Giacobbe, Carlotta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

^c SLOVENIAN NATIONAL BUILDING AND CIVIL ENGINEERING INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS PHASE; CO-DOPED; CO-DOPING; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; DOPED SAMPLE; GASPHASE; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; NANO POWDERS; NITROGEN-DOPING; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; TIO; TITANIA; TITANIA POWDERS; UV-LIGHT; VISIBLE REGION; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; DEGRADATION; NITROGEN; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; POWDERS; SILICA; SOL-GEL PROCESS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84861096633     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2012.05135.x     Document Type: Article

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