Preparation and characterizations of Cu2O/reduced graphene oxide nanocomposites with high photo-catalytic performances

Powder Technology

Volumn 261, Issue , 2014, Pages 42-48

  Wang, Aolan ^a   Li, Xueshan ^a   Zhao, Yibo ^a   Wu, Wei ^a   Chen, Jianfeng ^a   Meng, Hong ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Nanocomposites; Photo catalytic activity; Reduced graphene oxide

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DEGRADATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHENE; NANOCOMPOSITES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AVERAGE DIAMETER; EFFECTIVE CHARGE; GRAPHENE OXIDE NANOCOMPOSITES; GRAPHENE OXIDES; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; SIMULATED SUNLIGHT; UV-VIS SPECTROSCOPY;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COPPER ACETATE; CUPROUS OXIDE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GRAPHENE OXIDE; NANOCOMPOSITE; RHODAMINE B;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOANALYSIS; NANOFABRICATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84899690484     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: 1873328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2014.04.004     Document Type: Article

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