In-situ synthesis of heterostructured BiVO4/BiOBr core-shell hierarchical mesoporous spindles with highly enhanced visible-light photocatalytic performance

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Volumn 713, Issue , 2017, Pages 78-86

  Zhang, Yaping ^a   Li, Weibing ^a,c   Sun, Zhiyong ^c   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Wang, Lin ^a   Chen, Zhuoyuan ^b  

^a QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c LUOYANG SHIP MATERIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

BiVO4 BiOBr p n heterojunction; Hierarchical structure; In situ ion conversion; Synergistic effect

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; POLYMER BLENDS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

CORE SHELL PARTICLES; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; ION CONVERSION; P-N HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT;

HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85018498492     PISSN: 09258388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.04.176     Document Type: Article

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