Advanced photocatalytic materials by nanocarbon hybrid materials

Nanocarbon-Inorganic Hybrids: Next Generation Composites for Sustainable Energy Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 429-454

  Centi, Gabriele ^a   Perathoner, Siglinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; ELECTRON COLLECTIONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC BEHAVIORS; PHOTOCATALYTIC MATERIALS; PHOTOELECTROLYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLES; SEMICONDUCTOR PARTICLES; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY;

HYBRID MATERIALS;

EID: 84979176750     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1515/9783110269864.429     Document Type: Chapter

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