Laser-Modified Black Titanium Oxide Nanospheres and Their Photocatalytic Activities under Visible Light

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 29, 2015, Pages 16070-16077

  Chen, Xing ^a   Zhao, Dongxu ^a   Liu, Kewei ^a   Wang, Chunrui ^a   Liu, Lei ^a   Li, Binghui ^a   Zhang, Zhenzhong ^a   Shen, Dezhen ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

Author keywords

laser; nanospheres; photocatalytic; titanium oxides; visible light

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; HIGH ENERGY LASERS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LASER ABLATION; LASERS; LIGHT; NANOSPHERES; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PULSED LASERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLUTIONS; TITANIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PULSE LASER ABLATION; SELECTED AREA ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; UV-VIS-NIR DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; VISIBLE LIGHT;

TITANIUM OXIDES;

EID: 84938360866     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b04568     Document Type: Article

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