Insights on measuring and reporting heterogeneous photocatalysis: Efficiency definitions and setup examples

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 158-167

  Qureshi, Muhammad ^a   Takanabe, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; EFFICIENCY;

DIRECT PRODUCTION; HETEROGENEOUS PHOTOCATALYSIS; HETEROGENEOUS PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTOCATALYTIC EFFICIENCY; REPRODUCIBILITIES; RESEARCH FIELDS; STATISTICAL DATAS; TURNOVER FREQUENCY;

PHOTOCATALYSIS;

EID: 85034976840     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02907     Document Type: Review

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