Carbon-Incorporated NiO/TiO2 Mesoporous Shells with p-n Heterojunctions for Efficient Visible Light Photocatalysis

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 43, 2016, Pages 29511-29521

  Wang, Minggui ^a   Han, Jie ^a,b   Hu, Yimin ^a   Guo, Rong ^a   Yin, Yadong ^b  

^a YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon; mesoporous shells; NiO; photocatalyst; TiO2

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON; DYES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; GRAPHITE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; NANOSPHERES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; POLYSTYRENES; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE; MESOPOROUS SHELL; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; POLYSTYRENE NANOSPHERES; VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORPTION; VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSIS; VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSTS;

LIGHT;

EID: 84994442817     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b10480     Document Type: Article

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