Observing the role of graphene in boosting the two-electron reduction of oxygen in graphene-wo3 nanorod photocatalysts

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 5574-5584

  Weng, Bo ^b   Wu, Jing ^b   Zhang, Nan ^b   Xu, Yi Jun ^a  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCOMPOSITES; NANORODS; PHOTOCATALYSTS;

ABSORPTION INTENSITY; ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; COMPOSITE PHOTOCATALYSTS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROSTATIC SELF ASSEMBLY; PHOTOGENERATED CHARGE CARRIERS; TWO-ELECTRON REDUCTION;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84901045135     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la4048566     Document Type: Article

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