New insights into the photocatalytic properties of RuO2/TiO2 mesoporous heterostructures for hydrogen production and organic pollutant photodecomposition

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 7006-7015

  Uddin, Md Tamez ^a   Babot, Odile ^a   Thomas, Laurent ^a   Olivier, Céline ^a   Redaelli, Matteo ^b   D'Arienzo, Massimiliano ^b   Morazzoni, Franca ^b   Jaegermann, Wolfram ^c   Rockstroh, Nils ^d   Junge, Henrik ^d   Toupance, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; AZO DYES; CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NANOCOMPOSITES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; TIO2 NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM METALLOGRAPHY; URANIUM METALLOGRAPHY; VANADIUM METALLOGRAPHY;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION RATE; METHANOL PHOTOREFORMING; ORGANIC DYE DECOMPOSITION; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY; PHOTOGENERATED CHARGE CARRIERS; PHOTOGENERATED HOLES; UV-LIGHT ILLUMINATION;

RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84926510219     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp512769u     Document Type: Article

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