Fabrication of Cu2O/TiO2 nanotube arrays with enhanced visible-light photoelectrocatalytic activity

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Xiang, Liyun ^a   Ya, Jing ^a   Hu, Fengjiao ^a,b   Li, Lixia ^a   Liu, Zhifeng ^a  

^a TIANJIN CHENGJIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTODEGRADATION; REDUCTION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; YARN;

EDS MEASUREMENTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION PROCESS; HETEROGENEOUS STRUCTURES; METHYLENE BLUE; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; PHOTODEGRADATION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORPTION;

LIGHT;

EID: 85012217332     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-017-0799-3     Document Type: Article

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