Enhanced photocatalytic performance of ZnO/multi-walled carbon nanotube nanocomposites for dye degradation

Ceramics International

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 5629-5633

  Liu, Ping ^a   Guo, Yanqing ^a   Xu, Qingwei ^a   Wang, Fengge ^a   Li, Yanbin ^a   Shao, Keran ^b  

^a ZHONGYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

B. Nanocomposites; D. Carbon; D. ZnO; E. Functional applications

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895062327     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2013.10.157     Document Type: Article

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