Tailoring the energy band gap and edges’ potentials of g-C3N4/TiO2composite photocatalysts for NOxremoval

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 310, Issue , 2017, Pages 571-580

  Giannakopoulou, Tatiana ^a   Papailias, Ilias ^a   Todorova, Nadia ^a   Boukos, Nikos ^a   Liu, Yong ^b   Yu, Jiaguo ^b   Trapalis, Christos ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b Wuhan University of Technology   (China)

Author keywords

g C3N4; Mott Schottky; NO oxidation; Photocatalysis; TiO2

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998723948     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2015.12.102     Document Type: Article

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