Designing three-dimensional acicular sheaf shaped BiVO4/reduced graphene oxide composites for efficient sunlight-driven photocatalytic degradation of dye wastewater

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 249, Issue , 2014, Pages 102-110

  Dong, Shuying ^a   Cui, Yanrui ^a   Wang, Yifei ^b   Li, Yukun ^a   Hu, Limin ^a   Sun, Jingyu ^c   Sun, Jianhui ^a  

^a HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acicular sheaf; Natural sunlight; Photocatalytic; RGO

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE FILMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; GRAPHENE;

ACICULAR SHEAF; COST-EFFECTIVE METHODS; NATURAL SUNLIGHT; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO);

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84907552145     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2014.03.071     Document Type: Article

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