One-step preparation of nitrogen doped titanium oxide/Au/reduced graphene oxide composite thin films for photocatalytic applications

RSC Advances

Volumn 5, Issue 61, 2015, Pages 49771-49779

  Datcu, A ^a   Duta, L ^a   Perez Del Pino A ^b   Logofatu, C ^c   Luculescu, C ^a   Duta, A ^d   Perniu, D ^d   Gyorgy E ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LASER   (Romania)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA ICMAB CSIC   (Spain)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS PHYSICS   (Romania)

^d TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; COMPOSITE FILMS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); EXCIMER LASERS; FILM PREPARATION; GOLD; GOLD ALLOYS; GRAPHENE; IRRADIATION; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NITROGEN; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PLATELETS; PULSED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; THIN FILMS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM OXIDES;

IRRADIATION CONDITIONS; MATRIX ASSISTED PULSED LASER EVAPORATION; NANOCOMPOSITE THIN FILMS; NANOPARTICLE (NPS); NITROGEN-DOPED TITANIUM OXIDES; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC APPLICATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY;

OXIDE FILMS;

EID: 84930960289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5ra07853a     Document Type: Article

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