Tailored Fabrication of Thoroughly Mesoporous BiVO4 Nanofibers and Their Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activities

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1929-1936

  Liu, Huabing ^a,b   Hou, Huilin ^b   Gao, Fengmei ^b   Yao, Xiaohong ^a   Yang, Weiyou ^b  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NINGBO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

BiVO4; electrospinning; mesoporous; nanofibers; photocatalytic activities

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSPINNING; IRRADIATION; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; NANOFIBERS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; SPINNING (FIBERS); WATER TREATMENT;

BISMUTH VANADATES; BIVO4; MESOPOROUS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; VISIBLE LIGHT DRIVEN PHOTOCATALYSTS; VISIBLE LIGHT PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION; WATER PURIFICATION;

LIGHT;

EID: 84955574496     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b10086     Document Type: Article

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