Room-temperature synthesis and high visible-light-induced photocatalytic activity of AgI/BiOI composites

Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 526-533

  Lv, Yaohui ^a   Liu, Hong ^b   Zhang, Wei ^a   Ran, Songlin ^a   Chi, Fangli ^a   Yang, Bin ^a   Xia, Ailin ^a  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AgI BiOI; Charge transfer; Ions exchange; Nanocomposites; Photocatalysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883747958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22133437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2013.06.019     Document Type: Article

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