Facile Formation of Mesoporous BiVO4/Ag/AgCl Heterostructured Microspheres with Enhanced Visible-Light Photoactivity

Inorganic Chemistry

Volumn 54, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 9033-9039

  Qiao, Ru ^a   Mao, Mengmeng ^a   Hu, Enlai ^a   Zhong, Yijun ^a   Ning, Jiqiang ^b   Hu, Yong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

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EID: 84942105340     PISSN: 00201669     EISSN: 1520510X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b01303     Document Type: Article

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