Activating Layered Perovskite Compound Sr2TiO4 via La/N Codoping for Visible Light Photocatalytic Water Splitting

ACS Catalysis

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 3209-3221

  Sun, Xiaoqin ^a   Mi, Yongli ^a,b   Jiao, Feng ^c   Xu, Xiaoxiang ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Band gap engineering; DFT calculations; La N codoping; Sr2TiO4; visible light photocatalyst; water splitting

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; ENERGY GAP; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATERIALS HANDLING; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOCATALYSTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; WATER ABSORPTION; WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS;

BAND GAP ENGINEERING; CO-DOPING; DFT CALCULATION; SR2TIO4; VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSTS; WATER SPLITTING;

STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85045086136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21555435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b00369     Document Type: Article

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