Band-gap engineering of NaNbO3 for photocatalytic H2 evolution with visible light

International Journal of Photoenergy

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Li, Peng ^a   Abe, Hideki ^b   Ye, Jinhua ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ENERGY GAP; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

BAND GAP ENGINEERING; COBALT DOPANTS; DOPANT CONCENTRATIONS; H 2 EVOLUTION; METHANOL SOLUTION; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOABSORPTIONS; VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE LIGHT REGION; VISIBLE-LIGHT RESPONSE PHOTOCATALYST;

NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84935036872     PISSN: 1110662X     EISSN: 1687529X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/380421     Document Type: Article

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