Photocatalytic hydrogen production from aqueous Na2S + Na 2SO3 solution with B-doped ZnO

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 982-988

  Gomathisankar, Paramasivan ^a   Hachisuka, Katsumasa ^a   Katsumata, Hideyuki ^a   Suzuki, Tohru ^a   Funasaka, Kunihiro ^b   Kaneco, Satoshi ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boron; Heterojunction; Na2S + Na 2SO3; Photocatalytic hydrogen generation; ZnO

Indexed keywords

CALCINATION TEMPERATURE; DOPING CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPIES; UV-VISIBLE DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ZNO;

BORON; CALCINATION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SODIUM; UREA; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84881406811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sc400061w     Document Type: Article

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