Design of porous silica supported tantalum oxide hollow spheres showing enhanced photocatalytic activity

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3199-3208

  Sharma, Manu ^a   Das, Debashree ^a   Baruah, Arabinda ^a   Jain, Archana ^a   Ganguli, Ashok K ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOCATALYSIS; SILICA;

CETYL TRIMETHYL AMMONIUM BROMIDES; HYDROTHERMAL TREATMENTS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC APPLICATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY; SHELL THICKNESS; TETRA-ETHYL-ORTHO-SILICATE; VARIABLE DIAMETER;

TANTALUM OXIDES;

AMMONIA; CETRIMIDE; OXIDE; SILICON DIOXIDE; TANTALUM; TANTALUM OXIDE;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; POROSITY;

ADSORPTION; AMMONIA; CETRIMONIUM COMPOUNDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; OXIDES; POROSITY; SILICON DIOXIDE; TANTALUM;

EID: 84897073776     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la500167a     Document Type: Article

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