Comparative investigation of photocatalytic degradation of toluene on nitrogen doped Ta2O5 and Nb2O5 nanoparticles

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3320-3328

  Ullah, Ruh ^a   Sun, Hongqi ^a   Ang, Ha Ming ^a   Tadé, Moses O ^a   Wang, Shaobin ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BETTER PERFORMANCE; MONOCLINIC STRUCTURES; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC DECOMPOSITION; SINTERING TEMPERATURES; SOLUTION METHODS; STABLE PERFORMANCE; UV-VIS DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LABORATORIES; MATERIALS; NANOPARTICLES; NIOBIUM; NIOBIUM OXIDE; PHOTODEGRADATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINTERING; TANTALUM OXIDES; TOLUENE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

TANTALUM;

EID: 84874893120     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie302326h     Document Type: Article

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