New insights into the mechanism of visible light photocatalysis

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 2543-2554

  Banerjee, Swagata ^a   Pillai, Suresh C ^b   Falaras, Polycarpos ^c   O'shea, Kevin E ^d   Byrne, John A ^e   Dionysiou, Dionysios D ^f  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^b Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

^c INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^d FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOCATALYSIS; SUN; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ELECTRON-HOLE SEPARATION; ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROCESS; PHOTOCONVERSION EFFICIENCY; VISIBLE-LIGHT ACTIVITY; VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSIS; VISIBLE-LIGHT-ACTIVE PHOTOCATALYST;

LIGHT;

EID: 84905750514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz501030x     Document Type: Article

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