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TiO2-coated Hollow Glass Microspheres with Superhydrophobic and High IR-reflective Properties Synthesized by a Soft-chemistry Method
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Visible-light induced superhydrophilicity on a WO(3)/ITO/CaFe(2)O(4) heterojunction thin film
1Nanotechnology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8565, Japan.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 1, 2009
Abstract:
The WO(3)/ITO/CaFe(2)O(4) film surface showed visible-light induced superhydrophilicity, which is ascribed to efficient charge separation, resulting from the recombination of photo-electrons from WO(3) with photo-holes from CaFe(2)O(4) in the ITO layer.
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