Kinetics and physicochemical process of photoinduced hydrophobic ↔ superhydrophilic switching of pristine and N-doped TiO2 nanotube arrays

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 6851-6860

  Antony, Rajini P ^a   Mathews, Tom ^a   Dash, S ^a   Tyagi, A K ^a  

^a INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONACEOUS SPECIES; CONVERSION RATES; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC; NITROGEN SOURCES; PHOTO-IRRADIATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROCESS; SUPER-HYDROPHILIC; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ETHYLENE GLYCOL; NANOTUBES; PHOTOELECTRONS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; UREA; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

HYDROPHOBICITY;

EID: 84875867480     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp400718t     Document Type: Article

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