Efficient Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrobenzene by Defect-Engineered TiO2-x Single Crystals

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 5234-5242

  Liu, Chang ^a   Zhang, Ai Yong ^a,b   Pei, Dan Ni ^a   Yu, Han Qing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFECTS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; NITROBENZENE; OXYGEN VACANCIES; POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; REDUCTION; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WATER POLLUTION;

CATHODIC ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC REDUCTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES; WATER AND WASTEWATER;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

NITROBENZENE; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WATER; NITROBENZENE DERIVATIVE; WASTE WATER;

BENZENE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CRYSTAL; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ENGINEERING; GEOMETRY; OXIDE; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REDUCTION; TITANIUM; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR STABILITY; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION CONTROL; STOICHIOMETRY; WASTE WATER; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE;

CATALYSIS; ELECTRODES; NITROBENZENES; OXYGEN; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84969718290     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b00730     Document Type: Article

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