Synthesis of mesoporous Ag/ZnO nanocrystals with enhanced photocatalytic activity

Catalysis Today

Volumn 252, Issue , 2015, Pages 20-26

  Bouzid, Houcine ^a,c   Faisal, M ^a   Harraz, Farid A ^a,b   Al Sayari, Saleh A ^a   Ismail, Adel A ^a,b  

^a NAJRAN UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b CMRDI   (Egypt)

^c University of Sfax   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Ag ZnO; Mesoporous; Photocatalyst; Photocatalytic activity; Visible light

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; HYBRID MATERIALS; LIGHT; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

MESOPOROUS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC EFFICIENCY; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; SINGLE-STEP SOL-GEL METHODS; STRUCTURE DIRECTING AGENTS; VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

SILVER;

EID: 84930040034     PISSN: 09205861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2014.10.011     Document Type: Article

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