Large-scale synthesis of TiO2microspheres with hierarchical nanostructure for highly efficient photodriven reduction of CO2to CH4

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 15488-15498

  Fang, Baizeng ^a,b   Bonakdarpour, Arman ^a,b   Reilly, Kevin ^a,b   Xing, Yalan ^a,b   Taghipour, Fariborz ^a,b   Wilkinson, David P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b 2360 East Mall   (Canada)

Author keywords

CO2reduction; hierarchical nanostructure; photocatalyst; Pt loading; TiO2spheres

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLES; OXIDE MINERALS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOCATALYSTS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CO2REDUCTION; HIERARCHICAL NANOSTRUCTURES; HIERARCHICAL POROSITY; INDUSTRIAL SYNTHESIS; LARGE SCALE SYNTHESIS; PT LOADING; SYNTHESIS STRATEGY; TIO2SPHERES;

PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY;

EID: 84907807609     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am504128t     Document Type: Article

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