Direct in situ synthesis of Fe2O3-codoped N-doped TiO2nanoparticles with enhanced photocatalytic and photo-electrochemical properties

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Volumn 705, Issue , 2017, Pages 89-97

  Sun, Mingxuan ^a   Fang, Yalin ^a   Kong, Yuanyuan ^b,c   Yuan, Xiaojiao ^a   Shi, Jifeng ^a   Umar, Ahmad ^d  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^c TONGREN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NAJRAN UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Fe2O3codoped N TiO2; Nanoparticles; Photo electrochemical; Photocatalysis

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM NITRIDE;

CO-DOPED; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; LARGE SCALE SYNTHESIS; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMICAL; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORPTION;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 85013030269     PISSN: 09258388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.02.062     Document Type: Article

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