Highly-dispersed Boron-doped graphene nanosheets loaded with TiO 2 nanoparticles for enhancing CO2 photoreduction

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Xing, Mingyang ^a   Shen, Fan ^a   Qiu, Bocheng ^a   Zhang, Jinlong ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84922173619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06341     Document Type: Article

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