Improved synthesis of reduced graphene oxide-titanium dioxide composite with highly exposed {001} facets and its photoelectrochemical response

International Journal of Photoenergy

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Thien, Gregory S H ^a   Omar, Fatin Saiha ^a   Blya, Nur Ily Syuhada Ahmad ^a   Chiu, Wee Siong ^a   Lim, Hong Ngee ^b   Yousefi, Ramin ^c   Sheini, Farid Jamali ^d   Huang, Nay Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GRAPHENE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CRYSTAL FACETS; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; HIGH-RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; HIGHER YIELD; MICROSCOPE IMAGING; MICROSCOPE RESOLUTION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL RESPONSE; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; SIMPLE APPROACH; SOLVOTHERMAL ROUTE;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84900000274     PISSN: 1110662X     EISSN: 1687529X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/650583     Document Type: Article

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