Porous Mn-doped ZnO nanoparticles for enhanced solar and visible light photocatalysis

Materials and Design

Volumn 101, Issue , 2016, Pages 309-316

  Achouri, Faouzi ^a,b,c   Corbel, Serge ^a   Balan, Lavinia ^d   Mozet, Kevin ^a   Girot, Emilien ^a   Medjahdi, Ghouti ^a   Said, Myriam Ben ^b   Ghrabi, Ahmed ^b   Schneider, Raphaël ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b University of Carthage   (Tunisia)

^c Struggle and Prevention   (Tunisia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

Author keywords

Mn doped ZnO; Oxidation; Photocatalysis; Porous nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MANGANESE OXIDE; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; ZINC OXIDE;

BET SURFACE AREA MEASUREMENT; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MN-DOPED ZNO; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; POROUS NANOPARTICLES; POST-SYNTHETIC ANNEALING; SOLAR LIGHT IRRADIATION; VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSIS;

MANGANESE;

EID: 84963986399     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2016.04.015     Document Type: Article

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