A red metallic oxide photocatalyst

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 595-598

  Xu, Xiaoxiang ^a   Randorn, Chamnan ^a,b   Efstathiou, Paraskevi ^a   Irvine, John T S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; NIOBIUM OXIDE; OXIDES; SEPARATION;

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; HIGH CARRIER MOBILITY; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; LIGHT-HARVESTING; METALLIC OXIDES; METALLIC PROPERTIES; OXIDATION AND REDUCTION; PHOTO-CATALYTIC;

METALS;

EID: 84862696573     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3312     Document Type: Article

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