Various facet tunable ZnO crystals by a scalable solvothermal synthesis and their facet-dependent photocatalytic activities

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 44, 2014, Pages 25434-25440

  Huang, Mianli ^a   Weng, Sunxian ^a   Wang, Bo ^a   Hu, Jun ^a   Fu, Xianzhi ^a   Liu, Ping ^a  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALS; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GEOMETRY; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; OXIDE MINERALS; POLYOLS; VOLUME FRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE;

FORMATION MECHANISM; GEOMETRIC STRUCTURE; HARMFUL CHEMICALS; HIGH-ENERGY FACETS; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; REACTION CONDITIONS; SOLVOTHERMAL METHOD; SOLVOTHERMAL SYNTHESIS;

PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY;

EID: 84908628188     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5072567     Document Type: Article

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