A novel heterostructured plasmonic photocatalyst with high photocatalytic activity: Ag@AgCl nanoparticles modified titanium phosphate nanoplates

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Volumn 698, Issue , 2017, Pages 410-419

  Ao, Yanhui ^a   Bao, Jiaqiu ^a   Wang, Peifang ^a   Wang, Chao ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ag@AgCl; Heterojunction; Photocatalysis; Titanium phosphate

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPLEXATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PLASMONICS; PLASMONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SILVER HALIDES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AG-AGCL; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE EFFECTS; TITANIUM PHOSPHATE;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 85007008030     PISSN: 09258388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.12.231     Document Type: Article

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