Substitution Boosts Charge Separation for High Solar-Driven Photocatalytic Performance

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 40, 2016, Pages 26783-26793

  Zhang, Gong ^a,e   Zhang, Le ^d   Liu, Yang ^b   Liu, Limin ^d   Huang, Chin Pao ^c   Liu, Huijuan ^a,e   Li, Jinghong ^b  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d BEIJING COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

BiOBr; iodine; photoactivity; substitution; vacancy

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT; OXYGEN VACANCIES; PHOTOCATALYSTS; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; VACANCIES;

BAND GAP ENGINEERING; BIOBR; HIGH-EFFICIENCY CATALYSTS; PHOTOACTIVITY; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; PHOTON-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

IODINE;

EID: 84991678537     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b08676     Document Type: Article

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