Photoelectrocatalytic oxidation of organics under visible light illumination: A short review

Current Organic Chemistry

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 512-520

  Karanasios, Nikolaos ^a   Georgieva, Jenia ^b   Valova, Eugenia ^b   Armyanov, Stephan ^b   Litsardakis, Georgios ^a   Sotiropoulos, Sotiris ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Photoanodes; Photoelectrocatalysis; Photooxidation; Semiconductors; Titanium dioxide; Visible light

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTOOXIDATION; YARN;

ADVANCED OXIDATION; HYDROGEN ENERGY; LIGHT ILLUMINATION; OXIDATION OF ORGANICS; PHOTO-ANODES; PHOTO-ELECTROCATALYSIS; PHOTO-ELECTROCATALYTIC OXIDATIONS; PHOTOELECTROCATALYSIS; PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN; VISIBLE LIGHT;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84929353646     PISSN: 13852728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1385272819666150115000247     Document Type: Article

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