Bandgap engineering of oxygen-rich TiO2+x for photocatalyst with enhanced visible-light photocatalytic ability

Journal of Materials Science

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4324-4329

  Pan, Hui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OXYGEN; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS;

BAND GAP ENGINEERING; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; INTRINSIC SEMICONDUCTORS; ITS EFFICIENCIES; ORDERED STRUCTURES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; TRAPPING CENTERS; VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORPTION;

MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84939964949     PISSN: 00222461     EISSN: 15734803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10853-015-8984-2     Document Type: Article

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