Improving photocatalytic H2 evolution of TiO2 via formation of {001}-{010} quasi-heterojunctions

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 22894-22902

  Wang, Danping ^a,b   Kanhere, Pushkar ^a,b   Li, Mingjie ^c   Tay, Qiuling ^b   Tang, Yuxin ^b   Huang, Yizhong ^b   Sum, Tze Chien ^c   Mathews, Nripan ^a   Sritharan, Thirumany ^b   Chen, Zhong ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON-HOLE SEPARATION; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT SPECTROSCOPY; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTOCATALYST; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; NANOCRYSTALS;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84889789104     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp407508n     Document Type: Article

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