Hydrothermal evolution, optical and electrochemical properties of hierarchical porous hematite nanoarchitectures

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-14

  Zhu, Wancheng ^a   Cui, Xili ^a   Liu, Xiaofei ^a   Zhang, Liyun ^a   Huang, Jia Qi ^b   Piao, Xianglan ^b   Zhang, Qiang ^b  

^a QUFU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hematite; Hierarchical nanoarchitectures; Hydrothermal; Lithium ion batteries; Mesoporous

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; HEMATITE; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; WATER TREATMENT;

ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; HIERARCHICAL POROUS; HYDROTHERMAL; HYDROTHERMAL TREATMENTS; MESOPOROUS; NANOARCHITECTURES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; REACTION LIMITED AGGREGATIONS;

RHENIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84875147202     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-2     Document Type: Article

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