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Facile synthesis of SnO2–PbS nanocomposites with controlled structure for applications in photocatalysis

Published:2016 Issue:5 Volume:8 Page:2727-2739
ISSN:2040-3364
Container-title:Nanoscale
language:en
Short-container-title:Nanoscale

Author:

Kar Arik¹²³,Sain Sumanta⁴⁵⁶⁷,Rossouw David¹²³⁸⁹,Knappett Benjamin R.¹²³,Pradhan Swapan Kumar⁴⁵⁶⁷,Wheatley Andrew E. H.¹²³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry

2. University of Cambridge

3. Cambridge, UK

4. Materials Science Division

5. Department of Physics

6. The University of Burdwan

7. West Bengal 713 104, India

8. Department of Materials Science and Engineering

9. Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research and Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy

Abstract

A SnO₂–PbS nanocomposite photocatalyst has been designed to combat electron–hole recombination and narrow photoresponsive range. Structural elucidation explains how the two semiconductors function synergistically in Rhodamine B photodegradation.

Funder

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Royal Society

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2016/NR/C5NR07036H

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