Ag/ZnO nanoparticles thin films as visible light photocatalysts

RSC Advances

Volumn 4, Issue 100, 2014, Pages 56892-56899

  Rashid, Jamshaid ^a   Barakat, M A ^a,b   Salah, Numan ^a   Habib, Sami S ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b CENTRAL METALLURGICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CMRDI   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; KINETIC PARAMETERS; LIGHT; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOCATALYSTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE;

CATALYTIC EFFICIENCIES; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC EFFICIENCY; PSEUDO-SECOND-ORDER KINETIC MODELS; RADIO-FREQUENCY SPUTTERING; UV-VIS DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSTS;

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EID: 84908642157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra12990c     Document Type: Article

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