Tuning the photoelectronic and photocatalytic properties of single-crystalline TiO2 nanosheet array films with dominant {001} facets by controlling the hydrochloric acid concentration

Journal of Materials Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 950-957

  Yang, Lei ^a,b   Zhang, Qianghua ^b   Wang, Weihua ^b   Ma, Shubing ^b   Zhang, Miao ^a   Lv, Jianguo ^c,d   He, Gang ^a   Sun, Zhaoqi ^a  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Army Officer Academy   (China)

^c HEFEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; NANOSHEETS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ACID CONCENTRATIONS; CATALYTIC SITES; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; NANOSHEET ARRAYS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SUBSTRATE SURFACE;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84947494335     PISSN: 00222461     EISSN: 15734803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10853-015-9424-z     Document Type: Article

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