Ultrathin 2D/2D WO3/g-C3N4 step-scheme H2-production photocatalyst

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Volumn 243, Issue , 2019, Pages 556-565

  Fu, Junwei ^a   Xu, Quanlong ^a   Low, Jingxiang ^a   Jiang, Chuanjia ^b   Yu, Jiaguo ^a,c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Photocatalytic hydrogen generation; S Scheme heterojunction; Step heterojunction; Step like photocatalyst; Step scheme mechanism

Indexed keywords

CARBON NITRIDE; CARRIER MOBILITY; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTROSTATICS; ETCHING; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; NANOSHEETS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY;

ELECTROSTATIC SELF ASSEMBLY; HETEROGENEOUS INTERFACES; HETEROJUNCTION STRUCTURES; INTERFACIAL CHARGE TRANSFER; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN; PHOTOCATALYTIC RATE; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85056231748     PISSN: 09263373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2018.11.011     Document Type: Article

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