Hierarchically porous titania networks with tunable anatase:Rutile ratios and their enhanced photocatalytic activities

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 13129-13137

  Cao, Lu ^a   Chen, Dehong ^a   Li, Wei ^b   Caruso, Rachel A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

interfaces; nanostructure; phase junction; phase transformation; photocatalysts; porous material; solid state reaction; titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CALCINATION; EFFLUENTS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHASE INTERFACES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; POROUS MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SOLID STATE REACTIONS; SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

HIGH SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; NANOCRYSTALLINE TITANIA; PHASE JUNCTION; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; POWDER X RAY DIFFRACTION; SOLID STATE PHASE TRANSFORMATION;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84906240649     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am502990r     Document Type: Article

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