Complex-Mediated Synthesis of Tantalum Oxyfluoride Hierarchical Nanostructures for Highly Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 9395-9404

  Xu, Leilei ^a   Gong, Haotian ^a   Deng, Li ^a   Long, Fei ^a   Gu, Yu ^a   Guan, Jianguo ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

complex mediated synthesis; core shell particles; hierarchical structure; photocatalytic hydrogen production; stepwise hydrolysis; tantalum oxyfluoride

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; COORDINATION REACTIONS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUORINE; HYDROLYSIS; IONS; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURES; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; REACTION RATES; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SURFACE REACTIONS; TANTALUM;

CORE SHELL PARTICLES; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; OXYFLUORIDES; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; STEPWISE HYDROLYSIS;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 84964822686     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b02622     Document Type: Article

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