A facile route to reduced graphene oxide-zinc oxide nanorod composites with enhanced photocatalytic activity

Powder Technology

Volumn 257, Issue , 2014, Pages 113-119

  Huang, K ^a   Li, Y H ^a   Lin, S ^a   Liang, C ^a   Wang, H ^a   Ye, C X ^a   Wang, Y J ^a   Zhang, R ^a   Fan, D Y ^a   Yang, H J ^a   Wang, Y G ^a   Lei, M ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Composites; Photocatalysis; Reduced graphene oxide; ZnO nRs

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; GRAPHENE; LOADING; NANORODS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; ZINC OXIDE;

COMPOSITE PHOTOCATALYSTS; ELECTRONIC INTERACTIONS; GRAPHENE-BASED COMPOSITES; HYDROTHERMAL PROCESS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO); ZNO;

COMPLEXATION;

DYE; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE OXIDE; NANOROD; RHODAMINE; ZINC OXIDE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; HYBRIDIZATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID; SYNTHESIS; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84896044257     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: 1873328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2014.02.047     Document Type: Article

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