Photocatalytic, recyclable CdS nanoparticle-carbon nanotube hybrid sponges

Nano Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 265-271

  Li, Hongbian ^a,d   Gui, Xuchun ^b   Ji, Chunyan ^a   Li, Peixu ^c   Li, Zhen ^c   Zhang, Luhui ^a   Shi, Enzheng ^a   Zhu, Ke ^c   Wei, Jinquan ^c   Wang, Kunlin ^c   Zhu, Hongwei ^c   Wu, Dehai ^c   Cao, Anyuan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

adsorption; carbon nanotube; Hybrid nanostructure; nanoparticle; photocatalysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862814969     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-012-0206-5     Document Type: Article

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