Enhanced photocatalytic properties in well-ordered mesoporous WO3
- 17 September 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- Vol. 46 (40), 7620-7622
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c0cc01237h
Abstract
We used polyisoprene-block-ethyleneoxide copolymers as structure-directing agents to synthesise well-ordered and highly-crystalline mesoporous WO3 architectures that possess improved photocatalytic properties due to enhanced dye-adsorption in absence of diffusion limitation.Keywords
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