Three dimensional carbogenic dots/TiO2 nanoheterojunctions with enhanced visible light-driven photocatalytic activity

Carbon

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 369-379

  Liu, Jincheng ^a,b   Zhu, Wenyu ^a   Yu, Shuyan ^a   Yan, Xiaoli ^a,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANORODS; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTODEGRADATION; RATE CONSTANTS; RHODAMINE B; RHODIUM COMPOUNDS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CARBOXYLIC ACID GROUPS; FIRST-ORDER RATE CONSTANTS; NANO-HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORPTION; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY;

EID: 84920567704     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.07.079     Document Type: Article

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