Facile synthesis and enhanced visible light photocatalytic activity of N and Zr co-doped TiO2 nanostructures from nanotubular titanic acid precursors

Nanoscale Research Letters

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

  Zhang, Min ^a   Yu, Xinluan ^a   Lu, Dandan ^a   Yang, Jianjun ^a  

^a HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nanotubular titanic acid; Oxygen vacancy; Photocatalytic activity

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXYGEN VACANCIES; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; TIO2 NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZIRCONIUM;

ACID PRECURSORS; CO-DOPING; FACILE SYNTHESIS; NANOTUBULAR; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORPTION; VISIBLE LIGHT PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; WET CHEMICAL ROUTE;

PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY;

EID: 84891384552     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-543     Document Type: Article

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