Dispersed Cu2O Octahedrons on h-BN Nanosheets for p -Nitrophenol Reduction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 14469-14476

  Huang, Caijin ^a   Ye, Weiqing ^a   Liu, Qiuwen ^a   Qiu, Xiaoqing ^a  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

composites; h BN; p nitrophenol reduction; supporting substrates

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COPPER OXIDES; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOSHEETS; OXIDE MINERALS; PHENOLS; SUBSTRATES;

H-BN; METAL OXIDES; NEW APPROACHES; NH GROUPS; P-AMINOPHENOL; P-NITROPHENOL; RATIONAL DESIGN; SURFACE HYDROGEN;

BORON NITRIDE;

EID: 84906807320     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5037737     Document Type: Article

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