Unravelling the Efficient Photocatalytic Activity of Boron-induced Ti3+ Species in the Surface Layer of TiO2

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Feng, Ningdong ^a   Liu, Fen ^a   Huang, Min ^a   Zheng, Anmin ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Chen, Tiehong ^b   Cao, Gengyu ^a   Xu, Jun ^a   Fan, Jie ^c   Deng, Feng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84990064450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep34765     Document Type: Article

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