Improved photocatalytic performance of the ultra-small Ag nanocrystallite-decorated TiO2 hollow sphere heterostructures

ChemCatChem

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1392-1400

  Li, Qian ^a   Zhang, Caihong ^a   Ma, Jianmin ^b   Wang, Guozhong ^c   Ng, Dickon H L ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Ag; hollow sphere; metal semiconductor; photocatalysis

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; CHARGE TRANSFER; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; IRRADIATION; LOADING; OXYGEN; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SILVER; SPHERES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY; HOLLOW SPHERE; METAL SEMICONDUCTORS; METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTODEGRADATION EFFICIENCY; TIO; TWO-STEP HYDROTHERMAL METHOD;

NANOCRYSTALLITES;

EID: 84900333290     PISSN: 18673880     EISSN: 18673899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201300994     Document Type: Article

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