Facile one-pot synthesis of flower-like AgCl microstructures and enhancing of visible light photocatalysis

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Li, Meicheng ^a   Yu, Hang ^a   Huang, Rui ^a   Bai, Fan ^b   Trevor, Mwenya ^a   Song, Dandan ^a   Jiang, Bing ^a   Li, Yingfeng ^a  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Agcl; Flower like microstructures; Photocatalytic; Visible light

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; LIGHT; MICROSTRUCTURE; SILVER HALIDES;

AGCL; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSIS; VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSTS;

PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY;

EID: 84887298547     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-442     Document Type: Article

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