Replacement/etching route to ZnSe nanotube arrays and their enhanced photocatalytic activities

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4208-4214

  Chen, Lingling ^a   Zhang, Weixin ^a   Feng, Cheng ^a   Yang, Zeheng ^a   Yang, Yumei ^a  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ETCHING; CORE MATERIAL; DYE MOLECULE; METHYL ORANGE; NANOROD ARRAYS; NANOSTRUCTURED ARRAYS; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTIONS; REACTIVE ADSORPTION; SOLUBILITY PRODUCT; WALL THICKNESS; WELL-ALIGNED; ZNO; ZNO NANOROD; ZNO NANOROD ARRAYS;

AZO DYES; COREMAKING; DISSOLUTION; NANOTUBES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; ZINC OXIDE;

NANORODS;

EID: 84863349845     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie202044v     Document Type: Article

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