Relationship between microstructure and photocatalytic properties of nanomaterials
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Zeyan Wang
Abstract
With the understanding of structure-performance relationships in nanomaterials, the design, fabrication and modification of nanostructured materials have stimulated the development of material science and technology and have promoted a variety of potential applications. Nanotechnology, by precisely controling the nanostructures, will pave the way to improve the environments in which we live. In this review we summarize important results of our recent studies on the design, fabrication and modification of nanostructured semiconductor materials aimed at environmental applications, which include Ag@AgX (X = Cl, Br) plasmonic photocatalysts, hetero-nanostructures and P—N junctions, microstructures with exposed high-reactive facets, and Bi-based oxides. The topics discussed include the preparation and photocat alytic properties of nanoparticles, hetero-nanostructures, microspherical and tubular microstrucutures, hierarchical nanoarchitectures, and metastable nanomaterials prepared by hydrothermal, solvothermal, sol-gel, and high-temperature quenching methods.
© by Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Jinan, Germany
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- Preface: 3rd International Symposium on Structure-Property Relationships in Solid State Materials (SPSSM-2010)
- Structures and negative thermal expansion properties of the one-dimensional cyanides, CuCN, AgCN and AuCN
- From phase-change materials to thermoelectrics?
- Effect of chromium disorder on the thermoelectric properties of Layered-antiferromagnet CuCrS2
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- Local structure of TiNiCu(Hf) shape memory alloys: XAFS data analysis
- Ce valence in intermetallic compounds by means of XANES spectroscopy
- Correlation of the local and the macroscopic properties of high-temperature superconductors
- Coexistence of Charge Density Waves and d-Wave Superconductivity in Cuprates. Sharing of the Fermi Surface
- The coherent state and its relation to the flat/steep band model
- The layered ferromagnet Cs2AgF4: Antiferromagnetic inter-layer coupling driven by magnetic dipole-dipole interactions
- High-spin to Intermediate-spin Transition, Insulator-metal Transition, and Antiferro- to Ferromagnetic Transition in SrFeO2 under High Pressure
- Pressure effects on energy gaps and phase transitions in ZnAl2Se4
- The effect of pressure on the structural and electronic properties of yttrium orthovanadate YVO4 compound: total-energy calculations
- Relationship between microstructure and photocatalytic properties of nanomaterials
- Semiconductor photocatalysts for the visible light absorption from wide-gap semiconductors with dopant modification
- Filled platinum germanium skutterudites MPt4Ge12 (M = Sr, Ba, La—Nd, Sm, Eu): crystal structure and chemical bonding
