Chemical Substitution - Alignment of the Surface Potentials for Efficient Charge Transport in Nanocrystalline TiO2 Photocatalysts

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 4223-4230

  Primc, Darinka ^a   Zeng, Guobo ^a   Leute, Richard ^b   Walter, Michael ^b,c   Mayrhofer, Leonhard ^b,c   Niederberger, Markus ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METAL IONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; SOL-GELS; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE POTENTIAL; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CHEMICAL SUBSTITUTION; COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP; NANO-CRYSTALLINE TIO; PARTICLE MORPHOLOGIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC MATERIALS; VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORPTION;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84976548626     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b00846     Document Type: Article

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