Carbon nanofibers decorated with binary semiconductor (TiO2/ZnO) nanocomposites for the effective removal of organic pollutants and the enhancement of antibacterial activities

Ceramics International

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 7029-7035

  Pant, Bishweshwar ^a   Pant, Hem Raj ^a,b   Barakat, Nasser A M ^a   Park, Mira ^a   Jeon, Kyungsoo ^a   Choi, Yuri ^a   Kim, Hak Yong ^a  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

A. Electrospinning; A. Hydrothermal; B. Nanocomposite; E. Antibacterial; E. Photocatalyst

Indexed keywords

A. HYDROTHERMAL; ADSORPTION CHARACTERISTIC; E. ANTIBACTERIAL; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY AND STRUCTURES; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (TEM);

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CALCINATION; CARBON NANOFIBERS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; ELECTROSPINNING; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84877711721     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2013.02.041     Document Type: Article

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