Anchoring Tailored Low-Index Faceted BiOBr Nanoplates onto TiO2 Nanorods to Enhance the Stability and Visible-Light-Driven Catalytic Activity

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 9, Issue 19, 2017, Pages 16091-16102

  Xue, Chao ^a   Zhang, Tianxi ^a   Ding, Shujiang ^a   Wei, Jinjia ^a   Yang, Guidong ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

BiOBr; heterojunction; nanorod; photoreduction; TiO2

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; LIGHT; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; RATE CONSTANTS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

BIOBR; PHOTO-REDUCTION; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTODEGRADATION ACTIVITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON REMOVAL; VISIBLE LIGHT PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 85019636645     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b00433     Document Type: Article

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