High photocatalytic activity of transparent films composed of zno nanosheets

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 380-386

  Hynek, Jan ^a   Kalousek, Vít ^b   Žouželka, Radek ^b   Bezdička, Petr ^a   Dzik, Petr ^c   Rathouský, Jiří ^b   Demel, Jan ^a   Lang, Kamil ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b J HEYROVSKÝ INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^c BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; FIRST-ORDER RATE CONSTANTS; HIGH PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; NANOMETRIC THIN FILMS; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; SOL-GEL TECHNIQUE; SURFACE ARRANGEMENT; TRANSPARENT FILMS;

METALLIC FILMS; NANOSHEETS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; RATE CONSTANTS; SOL-GELS; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC OXIDE;

FILM PREPARATION;

EID: 84892621188     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la404017q     Document Type: Article

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