Fabrication of a three-dimensional BiOBr/BiOI photocatalyst with enhanced visible light photocatalytic performance

Ceramics International

Volumn 40, Issue 8 PART A, 2014, Pages 11493-11501

  Lin, Li ^a,b   Huang, Manhong ^a   Long, Liping ^b   Sun, Zhe ^a   Zheng, Wei ^a   Chen, Donghui ^a  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUNAN CITY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

BiOBr BiOI; Photocatalyst; Rhodamine B; Tetracycline; Visible light

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ADSORPTION DESORPTION ISOTHERMS; BIOBR/BIOI; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROMETRY; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; RHODAMINE B; TETRACYCLINE; UV-VIS DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; VISIBLE LIGHT;

PHOTODEGRADATION;

EID: 84903881021     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2014.03.039     Document Type: Article

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