Shedding Light on Aging of N-Doped Titania Photocatalysts

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 32, 2015, Pages 18663-18670

  Tarasov, Alexey ^a,b   Minnekhanov, Anton ^b   Trusov, German ^b   Konstantinova, Elizaveta ^b   Zyubin, Alexandr ^a   Zyubina, Tatiana ^a   Sadovnikov, Alexey ^c   Dobrovolsky, Yury ^a   Goodilin, Eugene ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROBLEMS OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c KURNAKOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL AND INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN VACANCIES; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOTOCATALYSTS; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

EVOLUTION PATHWAYS; INTERSTITIAL NITROGEN; NANOSTRUCTURED MICROSPHERES; NITROGEN DOPANT; NITROGEN SPECIES; NONPARAMAGNETIC; THEORETICAL SIMULATION; UV-VIS SPECTROSCOPY;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84939152245     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b02760     Document Type: Article

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