Oxygen Vacancies in Shape Controlled Cu2O/Reduced Graphene Oxide/In2O3 Hybrid for Promoted Photocatalytic Water Oxidation and Degradation of Environmental Pollutants

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 9, Issue 13, 2017, Pages 11678-11688

  Liu, Jie ^a,b   Ke, Jun ^b   Li, Degang ^c   Sun, Hongqi ^d   Liang, Ping ^b   Duan, Xiaoguang ^b   Tian, Wenjie ^b   Tadé, Moses O ^b   Liu, Shaomin ^b   Wang, Shaobin ^b  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

indium oxide; oxygen vacancies; p n heterojunction; photocatalysis; shape controlled synthesis

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY GAP; GRAPHENE; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HYBRID MATERIALS; INDIUM; MOLECULES; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; POLLUTION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

BUILT-IN ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; INDIUM OXIDE; P-N HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; PHOTOINDUCED ELECTRONS; SHAPE CONTROLLED SYNTHESIS;

OXYGEN VACANCIES;

EID: 85017093262     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b01605     Document Type: Article

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