ISRN Physical Chemistry
Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 724095, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/724095
Research Article
Sol-Gel Synthesized Semiconductor Oxides in Photocatalytic Degradation of Phenol
Dumanskii Institute of Colloid and Water Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
Received 28 October 2013; Accepted 20 November 2013; Published 5 January 2014
Academic Editors: P. L. Gentili and S. Sasaki
Copyright © 2014 Maria K. Cherepivska and Roman V. Prihod’ko. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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