Simple ethanol impregnation treatment can enhance photocatalytic activity of TiO2 nanoparticles under visible-light irradiation

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 7752-7758

  Kong, Lina ^a   Jiang, Zhiqiang ^b   Wang, Changhua ^a   Wan, Fangxu ^a   Li, Yingying ^a   Wu, Liangzhuan ^c   Zhi, Jin Fang ^c   Zhang, Xintong ^a   Chen, Shijian ^b   Liu, Yichun ^a  

^a NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

density functional calculation; ethanol impregnation; oxygen vacancy; TiO2; visible light photocatalyst

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ETHANOL; HEAT TREATMENT; IMPREGNATION; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; NANOPARTICLES; NAPHTHOL; OXYGEN VACANCIES; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; RHODIUM COMPOUNDS; TIO2 NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCES (EPR); HEAT TREATMENT TEMPERATURE; IMPREGNATION TREATMENTS; TIO2; VISIBLE LIGHT PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION; VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSTS;

PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY;

EID: 84927927006     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b00888     Document Type: Article

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