Fabrication of stable, efficient and recyclable p-CuO/n-ZnO thin film heterojunction for visible light driven photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes

Materials Letters

Volumn 164, Issue , 2015, Pages 221-224

  Ghosh, Amrita ^a   Mondal, Anup ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Interfaces; photocatalytic property; Semiconductors; Thin films

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; FABRICATION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

DEGRADATION MECHANISM; EXCELLENT PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY; VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE-LIGHT-DRIVEN;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84946566149     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: 18734979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2015.10.148     Document Type: Article

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