Silver deposited titanium dioxide thin film for photocatalysis of organic compounds using natural light

Solar Energy

Volumn 88, Issue , 2013, Pages 242-249

  Swarnakar, Prakash ^a   Kanel, Sushil R ^b   Nepal, Dhriti ^c   Jiang, Yuntong ^a   Jia, Huiying ^a   Kerr, Lei ^a   Goltz, Mark N ^b   Levy, Jonathan ^a   Rakovan, John ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy efficient water treatment; Nanoparticle TiO2 thin films; Photo degradation; Silver modified nanoparticle TiO2 (Ag TiO2); Sunlight

Indexed keywords

BATCH EXPERIMENTS; COATED FILMS; DEGRADATION EFFICIENCY; DEGRADATION RATE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROMETRY; ENERGY EFFICIENT; FILM SURFACES; GLASS SUBSTRATES; METHYL ORANGE; NANO-TIO; NATURAL LIGHT; NATURAL SUNLIGHT; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; SUNLIGHT; TIO; TITANIUM DIOXIDE THIN FILM; WATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES;

AZO DYES; CATALYST ACTIVITY; DEGRADATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

SILVER;

ANATASE; CATALYSIS; DEGRADATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILM; SILVER; SOLAR RADIATION; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84872129190     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2012.10.014     Document Type: Article

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