Designing of a spatially separated hetero-junction pseudobrookite (Fe2TiO5-TiO2) yolk-shell hollow spheres as efficient photocatalyst for water oxidation reaction

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Volumn 219, Issue , 2017, Pages 30-35

  Waqas, Muhammad ^a,b   Iqbal, Shahid ^b   Bahadur, Ali ^c   Saeed, Aamer ^c   Raheel, Muhammad ^d   Javed, Mohsin ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^d BALOCHISTAN UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Hetero junction photocatalytic water oxidation; Pseudobrookite; Titanium oxide; Yolk shell hollow spheres

Indexed keywords

OXIDATION; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SOLUTIONS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM OXIDES;

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; HOLLOW SPHERE; HOLLOW STRUCTURE; HYDROPHOBIC CORE; LIGHT-HARVESTING; PSEUDOBROOKITE; REACTION SOLVENTS; WATER OXIDATION;

SPHERES;

EID: 85025075542     PISSN: 09263373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2017.07.049     Document Type: Article

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