Synthesis of g-C3N4/BiOClxBr1-x hybrid photocatalysts and the photoactivity enhancement driven by visible light

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 461, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 202-211

  Shi, Shan ^a   Gondal, M A ^b   Rashid, S G ^b   Qi, Qi ^c   Al Saadi, A A ^b   Yamani, Z H ^b   Sui, Yihe ^a   Xu, Qingyu ^c   Shen, Kai ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^c SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Density functional theory (DFT); Frontier orbital energy; Gaussian 03; Hybrid photocatalyst

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONEGATIVITY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTODEGRADATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLID SOLUTIONS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

DIFFUSE REFLECTION SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA RED (FTIR) SPECTROSCOPY; FRONTIER ORBITAL ENERGIES; GAUSSIAN 03; HYBRID PHOTOCATALYSTS; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION; G-C3N4; PHOTOACTIVITY; VISIBLE LIGHT;

PHOTOCATALYSTS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

BISMUTH; BROMINE; CHLORINE; NANOMATERIAL; OXYGEN; BISMUTH DERIVATIVE; BROMIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYBRID; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CATALYST; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFUSE REFLECTION SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTON; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; SPECTROSCOPY; TIME CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84906492244     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: 18734359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2014.07.024     Document Type: Article

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