Tube-like ternary α-Fe2O3@SnO 2@Cu2O sandwich heterostructures: Synthesis and enhanced photocatalytic properties

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 13088-13097

  Tian, Qingyong ^a   Wu, Wei ^a,b   Sun, Lingling ^a   Yang, Shuanglei ^c   Lei, Mei ^a   Zhou, Juan ^a   Liu, Ying ^a   Xiao, Xiangheng ^a   Ren, Feng ^a   Jiang, Changzhong ^a   Roy, Vellaisamy A L ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

iron oxide; multilayer heterostructure; p n heterojunction; photocatalytic activity

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; DYES; ENERGY GAP; IRON OXIDES; MORPHOLOGY; MULTILAYERS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; HETEROGENEOUS PHOTOCATALYSIS; P-N HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY; SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTOCATALYST; WIDE-BAND-GAP SEMICONDUCTOR;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84906269115     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5029439     Document Type: Article

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