One-Pot Preparation of Fe2O3/Fe2TiO5 S-Scheme Heterojunction Photocatalyst for Highly Efficient Degradation of Organic Pollution
- Corresponding author: Jiang-Nan WANG, 914967941@qq.com Ting-Ting SHI, 10761135@qq.com
Citation:
Fang CHANG, Ying-Jie ZHAO, You-Ping SHOU, Lu ZHANG, Jiang-Nan WANG, Ting-Ting SHI. One-Pot Preparation of Fe2O3/Fe2TiO5 S-Scheme Heterojunction Photocatalyst for Highly Efficient Degradation of Organic Pollution[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry,
;2022, 38(9): 1862-1870.
doi:
10.11862/CJIC.2022.173
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