Improvement of photocatalytic activity of brookite titanium dioxide nanorods by surface modification using chemical etching

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 258, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5803-5809

  Zhang, Linjie ^a   Menendez Flores, Victor M ^a   Murakami, Naoya ^a   Ohno, Teruhisa ^a,b  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brookite nanorods; Chemical etching; Photocatalyst; Photocatalytic activity; Redox site

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ETCHING; IRRADIATION; NANORODS; OXIDES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS;

CHEMICAL ETCHING; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; REDOX SITES; SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA MEASUREMENT; TITANIUM DIOXIDES (TIO2); TOLUENE DECOMPOSITION; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATIONS;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84862786902     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2012.02.103     Document Type: Article

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