Photocatalytic colour switching of redox dyes for ink-free light-printable rewritable paper

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wang, Wenshou ^a   Xie, Ning ^a   He, Le ^a   Yin, Yadong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INK; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CATALYSIS; COLOR; DYE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; REACTION KINETICS; REDOX CONDITIONS; SUSTAINABILITY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLOR; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HEATING; MICROTECHNOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PAPER; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PRINTING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84922631560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6459     Document Type: Article

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