Interface Effects in Sunlight-Driven Ag/g-C3N4 Composite Catalysts: Study of the Toluene Photodegradation Quantum Efficiency

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2617-2627

  Fontelles Carceller, Olga ^a   Muñoz Batista, Mario J ^a   Fernández García, Marcos ^a   Kubacka, Anna ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CATÁLISIS Y PETROLEOQUÍMICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

carbon nitride; photocatalysis; silver; sunlight; toluene; visible

Indexed keywords

CARBON NITRIDE; CATALYSTS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NITRIDES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SILVER; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TOLUENE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPOSITE CATALYSTS; EFFICIENCY CALCULATIONS; EFFICIENCY PARAMETERS; GRAPHITE-LIKE CARBON NITRIDES; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; POROSITY MEASUREMENT; SUNLIGHT; VISIBLE;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84957928208     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b10434     Document Type: Article

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