Fabrication of CoTiO3/g-C3N4 Hybrid Photocatalysts with Enhanced H2 Evolution: Z-Scheme Photocatalytic Mechanism Insight

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 13879-13889

  Ye, Rongqin ^a   Fang, Huabin ^a   Zheng, Yan Zhen ^a   Li, Nan ^a   Wang, Yuan ^a   Tao, Xia ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

CoTiO3; g C3N4; H2 production; photocatayst; quantum efficiency; Z scheme mechanism

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOCATALYSTS;

COMPOSITE PHOTOCATALYSTS; COTIO3; G-C3N4; HIGH QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC SYSTEMS; PHOTOCATAYST; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84974801193     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b01850     Document Type: Article

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