Enhanced adsorption and photocatalysis capability of generally synthesized TiO2-carbon materials hybrids

Advanced Powder Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1949-1962

  Cheng, Gang ^a   Xu, Feifan ^a   Xiong, Jinyan ^b   Tian, Fan ^a   Ding, Jie ^a   Stadler, Florian J ^c   Chen, Rong ^a  

^a WUHAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adsorption and photocatalysis; Carbon materials; Composition and structure optimization; Hybrids; Rhodamine B removal; TiO2

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CATALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CARBON MATERIAL; HYBRIDS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC EFFICIENCY; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; RHODAMINE B; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; STRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION;

HYBRID MATERIALS;

EID: 84979498573     PISSN: 09218831     EISSN: 15685527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apt.2016.06.026     Document Type: Article

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