One-step synthesis of highly efficient threedimensional Cd1-xZnxS photocatalysts for visible light photocatalytic water splitting

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Xiong, Zuzhou ^a   Zheng, Maojun ^a   Zhu, Changqing ^a   Zhang, Bin ^a   Ma, Li ^a   Shen, Wenzhong ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Solid solutions; Solvothermal pathway; Visible light photocatalytic; Water splitting

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MORPHOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLID SOLUTIONS; SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE REACTIONS; X RAYS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOCATALYTIC WATER SPLITTING; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; SOLVOTHERMAL PATHWAY; VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORPTION; VISIBLE LIGHT DRIVEN PHOTOCATALYSTS; WATER SPLITTING; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROMETERS;

PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY;

EID: 84881221820     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-334     Document Type: Article

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