Nonquenching of charge carriers by Fe3O4 core in Fe3O4/ZnO nanosheet photocatalyst

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 49, 2014, Pages 15031-15039

  Karunakaran, Chockalingam ^a   Vinayagamoorthy, Pazhamalai ^a   Jayabharathi, Jayaraman ^a  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; IRON OXIDES; MAGNETITE; NANOSHEETS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; OXIDE MINERALS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; ZINC OXIDE;

ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH-RESOLUTION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOGENERATED CHARGE CARRIERS; SELECTED AREA ELECTRON DIFFRACTOMETRY; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; UV-VISIBLE DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; VIBRATING SAMPLE MAGNETOMETRY;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84918790766     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la5039409     Document Type: Article

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