Photocatalytic degradation of particulate pollutants and self-cleaning performance of TiO2-containing silicate coating and mortar

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 44, Issue , 2013, Pages 309-316

  Krishnan, Padmaja ^a   Zhang, Min Hong ^a   Yu, Liya ^a   Feng, Huajun ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Mortar; Particulate pollutant; Photocatalyst; Rhodamine B; Self cleaning; Silicate coating; Titanium oxide

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION EFFICIENCY; PARTICULATE POLLUTANT; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; RHODAMINE B; SELF-CLEANING; SILICATE COATINGS; WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS;

CLEANING; COATINGS; DEGRADATION; MORTAR; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLLUTION; SILICATES; TITANIUM OXIDES;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84876144139     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2013.03.009     Document Type: Article

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