Comparing two new composite photocatalysts, t-LaVO4/g-C 3N4 and m-LaVO4/g-C3N4, for their structures and performances

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 53, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 5905-5915

  He, Yiming ^a,c   Cai, Jun ^a   Zhang, Lihong ^a   Wang, Xiaoxing ^a   Lin, Hongjun ^a   Teng, Botao ^a,c   Zhao, Leihong ^a   Weng, Weizheng ^b   Wan, Huilin ^b   Fan, Maohong ^c,d  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

BRUNAUER-EMMETT-TELLER METHOD; COMPOSITE PHOTOCATALYSTS; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA RED (FTIR) SPECTROSCOPY; OPTIMAL CONCENTRATION; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOABSORPTIONS; STRUCTURE CHARACTERIZATION;

THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84898435259     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie4043856     Document Type: Article

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