Microsized BiOCl Square Nanosheets as Ultraviolet Photodetectors and Photocatalysts

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 6662-6668

  Li, Min ^a,b   Zhang, Junying ^a   Gao, Hong ^a   Li, Feng ^b   Lindquist, Sten Eric ^c   Wu, Nianqiang ^d   Wang, Rongming ^e  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TAISHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d West Virginia University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

Author keywords

BiOCl; optoelectronics; photocatalysis; solvothermal; ultraviolet photodetector

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS;

BIOCL; FAST TRANSIENT RESPONSE; HIGH SURFACE-TO-VOLUME RATIO; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; POLY VINYL PYRROLIDONE; SOLVOTHERMAL; ULTRA-VIOLET PHOTODETECTORS; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE LIGHT;

NANOSHEETS;

EID: 84962283292     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b00042     Document Type: Article

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