Large scale preparing carbon nanotube/zinc oxide hybrid and its application for highly reusable photocatalyst

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 191, Issue , 2012, Pages 571-578

  Dai, Kai ^a   Dawson, Graham ^b   Yang, Song ^a   Chen, Zheng ^b   Lu, Luhua ^b  

^a HUAIBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

Author keywords

Activity; Carbon nanotube ZnO; Characterization; Photocatalyst; Preparation

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY; HYBRID STRUCTURE; METHYLENE BLUE; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PREPARATION; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; UV-VIS DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTRA; ZNO; ZNO NANOPARTICLES;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CARBON; CHARACTERIZATION; DEGRADATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; PHOTOCATALYSTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 84862809079     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2012.03.008     Document Type: Article

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