Narrowing of band gap and effective charge carrier separation in oxygen deficient TiO2 nanotubes with improved visible light photocatalytic activity

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Volumn 465, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-10

  Choudhury, Biswajit ^a   Bayan, Sayan ^b   Choudhury, Amarjyoti ^a   Chakraborty, Purushottam ^b  

^a TEZPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Band gap; Defects; Lifetime; Mesoporous; Photocatalysis

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BIODEGRADATION; CHARGE CARRIERS; CHARGE TRANSFER; DEFECTS; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOTUBES; OXYGEN; PHENOLS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEPARATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; YARN;

CARRIER RECOMBINATION; CHARGE TRANSFER COMPLEX; LIFETIME; LOCAL COORDINATION; MESOPOROUS; PHOTODEGRADATION OF METHYLENE BLUE; VACUUM CALCINATION; VISIBLE LIGHT PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY;

OXYGEN VACANCIES;

METHYLENE BLUE; NANOTUBE; PHENOL; TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84948963338     PISSN: 00219797     EISSN: 10957103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2015.11.050     Document Type: Article

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