Surfactant-free synthesis of Cu2O hollow spheres and their wavelength-dependent visible photocatalytic activities using LED lamps as cold light sources

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Yuxi ^a   Huang, Da ^a   Zhu, Xingzhong ^a   Ma, Yujie ^a   Geng, Huijuan ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Yin, Guilin ^b   He, Dannong ^b   Yang, Zhi ^a,b   Hu, Nantao ^a  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cuprous oxide; Hollow spheres; LED cold light sources; Photocatalysis; Surfactant free

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; SPHERES; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

COLD LIGHT SOURCE; CUPROUS OXIDE; DEGRADATION OF METHYL ORANGES; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; HOLLOW SPHERE; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; SURFACTANT-FREE; VISIBLE-PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES;

COPPER OXIDES;

EID: 84916613855     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-624     Document Type: Article

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