Modified photocatalysts

Photocatalysis and Water Purification: From Fundamentals to Recent Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 103-143

  Shaham Waldmann, Nurit ^a   Paz, Yaron ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bulk modification; Charge separation; Composites photocatalysts; Doping; Preferential (selectivity); Products control; Specificity; Surface modification; TiO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885535322     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527645404.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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