High photocatalytic activity of plasmonic Ag@AgCl/Zn2SnO4 nanocomposites synthesized using hydrothermal method

RSC Advances

Volumn 6, Issue 83, 2016, Pages 80310-80319

  Ali, Monaam Ben ^a,b   Hamdi, Abderrahmane ^a   Elhouichet, Habib ^a,b   Sieber, Brigitte ^c   Addad, Ahmed ^c   Coffinier, Yannick ^d   Boussekey, Luc ^e   Férid, Mokhtar ^a   Szunerits, Sabine ^d   Boukherroub, Rabah ^d  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES EN SCIENCES DES MATÉRIAUX   (Tunisia)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LILLE 1   (France)

^d INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOCOMPOSITES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHENOLS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PLASMONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SILVER HALIDES; SOLUTIONS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY; HIGH PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PLASMONIC EFFECTS; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 85016404252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c6ra14813a     Document Type: Article

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