Sol-gel synthesis of a biotemplated inorganic photocatalyst: A simple experiment for introducing undergraduate students to materials chemistry

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 89, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1466-1469

  Boffa, Vittorio ^a   Yue, Yuanzheng ^a,b   He, Wen ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b SHANDONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental Chemistry; Hands On Learning Manipulatives; Inorganic Chemistry; Interdisciplinary Multidisciplinary; Laboratory Instruction; Materials Science; Photochemistry; Second Year Undergraduate; Upper Division Undergraduate; UV Vis Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867459026     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed300192d     Document Type: Article

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