A General and Facile Approach to Heterostructured Core/Shell BiVO4/BiOI p-n Junction: Room-Temperature in Situ Assembly and Highly Boosted Visible-Light Photocatalysis

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3262-3273

  Huang, Hongwei ^a   He, Ying ^a   Du, Xin ^b   Chu, Paul K ^c   Zhang, Yihe ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

BiOI; BiVO4; Core shell heterostructures; p n junction; Photocatalysis

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CATALYSIS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT; OXYGEN; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTODEGRADATION;

BIOI; BIVO4; CORE/SHELL; P-N JUNCTION; PHOTOCATALYSIS PROPERTIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION; VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSIS;

SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

EID: 84948993881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b01038     Document Type: Article

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