Analysis of photocatalytic performance of nanostructured pyrogenic titanium dioxide powders in view of their polydispersity and phase transition: Critical anatase particle size as a factor for suppression of charge recombination

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 228, Issue , 2013, Pages 614-621

  Moiseev, Anna ^a   Krichevskaya, Marina ^b   Qi, Fei ^a   Weber, Alfred P ^a   Deubener, Joachim ^a  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Anatase critical particle size; Flame aerosol synthesis; Particle size distribution; Phase transformation; Photocatalytic activity

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL SYNTHESIS; AVERAGE PARTICLE SIZE; CRITICAL PARTICLE SIZE; NANOSTRUCTURED POWDERS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC OXIDATIONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE POWDER;

AEROSOLS; FLAME SYNTHESIS; GAS ADSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OXIDE MINERALS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; RATE CONSTANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84878906161     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.05.038     Document Type: Article

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