Role of surface composition upon the photocatalytic hydrogen production of Cr-doped and La/Cr-codoped SrTiO3

Journal of Materials Science

Volumn 51, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 6464-6473

  Xu, Xiaoxiang ^a   Lv, Meilin ^a   Sun, Xiaoqin ^a   Liu, Gang ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEROVSKITE; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; POSITIVE IONS; STRONTIUM TITANATES; TEMPERATURE;

COMPOSITION CONTROL; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; HETEROGENEOUS CATALYTIC REACTIONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; PHOTOCATALYTIC WATER SPLITTING; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; SURFACE REARRANGEMENT;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 84962736064     PISSN: 00222461     EISSN: 15734803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10853-016-9945-0     Document Type: Article

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