Highly efficient room temperature synthesis of silver-doped zinc oxide (ZnO: Ag) nanoparticles: Structural, optical, and photocatalytic properties

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 766-773

  Yildirim, Özlem Altintaş ^a   Unalan, Husnu Emrah ^a   Durucan, Caner ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION STUDY; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY; PRECIPITATION METHODS; ROOM TEMPERATURE SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SUBSTITUTIONAL INCORPORATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (TEM);

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; METAL NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RIETVELD REFINEMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE;

SILVER;

EID: 84875240285     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jace.12218     Document Type: Article

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