High performance, recoverable Fe3O4ZnO nanoparticles for enhanced photocatalytic degradation of phenol

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 244, Issue , 2014, Pages 327-334

  Feng, Xiaohui ^a   Guo, Haijuan ^b   Patel, Kunal ^a   Zhou, Hong ^c   Lou, Xia ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c WUHAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fe3O4ZnO nanoparticles; Magnetic photocatalysts; Phenol degradation; Photocatalysis; ZnO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894025628     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2014.01.075     Document Type: Article

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