Facile synthesis of the Ti3+self-doped TiO2-graphene nanosheet composites with enhanced photocatalysis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Qiu, Bocheng ^a   Zhou, Yi ^a   Ma, Yunfei ^a   Yang, Xiaolong ^a   Sheng, Weiqin ^a   Xing, Mingyang ^a   Zhang, Jinlong ^a  

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

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EID: 84923860669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08591     Document Type: Article

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