Synthesis of strong light scattering absorber of TiO2-CMK-3/Ag for photocatalytic water splitting under visible light irradiation

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 8412-8418

  Hung, Wei Hsuan ^a   Lai, Sz Nian ^a   Lo, An Ya ^b  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIN YI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

mesoporous carbon; photocatalytic water splitting; plasmonic; titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ION EXCHANGE; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; PHOTOCURRENTS; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

COMPOSITE PHOTOCATALYSTS; MESOPOROUS CARBON; MESOPOROUS COMPOSITES; ORDERED MESOPOROUS CARBON; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTOCATALYTIC WATER SPLITTING; PLASMONIC; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

TIO2 NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84928793657     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am508684e     Document Type: Article

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