Facile Synthesis of Defective TiO 2-x Nanocrystals with High Surface Area and Tailoring Bandgap for Visible-light Photocatalysis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wajid Shah, Muhammad ^a,b   Zhu, Yunqing ^a   Fan, Xiaoyun ^a   Zhao, Jie ^a   Li, Yingxuan ^a   Asim, Sumreen ^a,b   Wang, Chuanyi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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EID: 84946151348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep15804     Document Type: Article

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