Evident improvement of nitrogen-doped graphene on visible light photocatalytic activity of N-TiO2/N-graphene nanocomposites

Materials Research Bulletin

Volumn 65, Issue , 2015, Pages 27-35

  Liu, Yingliang ^a   Wang, Shengping ^a   Xu, Shengang ^a   Cao, Shaokui ^a  

^a ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Composite; Nanostructure; Semiconductor; Solvothermal

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURES; RATE CONSTANTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

DIFFUSED REFLECTANCE; FIRST ORDER KINETICS; GRAPHENE OXIDES; NITROGEN DOPED GRAPHENE; PHOTODEGRADATION ACTIVITY; SOLVOTHERMAL; VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE LIGHT PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84921423017     PISSN: 00255408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.materresbull.2015.01.031     Document Type: Article

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