Enhanced photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic activity of WO3-surface modified TiO2 thin film

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Qamar, Mohammad ^a   Drmosh, Qasem ^a   Ahmed, Muhammad I ^a   Qamaruddin, Muhammad ^a   Yamani, Zain H ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Photocatalysis; Photoelectrochemistry; Sputtering; WO3 TiO2 thin film

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; ITO GLASS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; SOLAR ENERGY; SPUTTERING; TIN OXIDES; TIO2 NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

DECOLORIZATION OF METHYL ORANGES; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; NANO-STRUCTURED; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMISTRY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; SURFACE-MODIFIED; WO3/TIO2;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84923808175     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-0745-2     Document Type: Article

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