Facile and environment friendly synthesis of hierarchical BiOCl flowery microspheres with remarkable photocatalytic properties

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 802-809

  Liu, Jiaqin ^a,b   Hu, Jiajia ^a   Ruan, Lili ^a   Wu, Yucheng ^a,b  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b KEY LABORATORY OF ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS AND DEVICES OF ANHUI PROVINCE   (China)

Author keywords

BiOCl; Flowery microspheres; Hierarchical structure; Photocatalysis; PVA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893931986     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-014-0126-8     Document Type: Article

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