Abstract
Photocatalytic conversion of solar energy into chemical energy has attracted considerable interest for several decades. One compound already reported as a visible-light-active photocatalyst for water splitting is BiYWO6, a member of the Bi2-xYxWO6 family of compounds. The structural and optical properties of other members of this family have not been reported to date. In this work, we synthesized various compositions of Bi2-xYxWO6, studied their optical properties, and report their structural parameters obtained by utilizing powder diffraction coupled with Rietveld refinement.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 6464-6470 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | CrystEngComm |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 34 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 14 Sep 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2016 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
Funding
Funders | Funder number |
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Seventh Framework Programme | 336077 |