Mapping surface-modified titania nanoparticles with implications for activity and facet control

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Peng, Yung Kang ^a   Hu, Yichen ^b   Chou, Hung Lung ^c   Fu, Yingyi ^b   Teixeira, Ivo F ^a   Zhang, Li ^b   He, Heyong ^b   Tsang, Shik Chi Edman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOPARTICLE;

ADDITIVE; ADSORPTION; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; INORGANIC COMPOUND; NANOPARTICLE; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPECIES; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 85029757837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00619-z     Document Type: Article

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