Effect of defects on photocatalytic activity of rutile TiO2 nanorods

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4061-4071

  Zhao, Zhao ^a,b,c,d   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^a,c   Zhang, Guoqiang ^a,c   Liu, Zhenyu ^a   Qu, Dan ^a,c   Miao, Xiang ^a,c   Feng, Pingyun ^d   Sun, Zaicheng ^a,b  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

charge separation; defects; oxygen vacancies; photocatalytic H2 generation; TiO2

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947419876     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-015-0917-5     Document Type: Article

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