Facile One-Step Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanofibers for the Removal of Potentially Toxic Metals from Water

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 54, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 5172-5178

  Modi, Akshay ^a   Bhaduri, Bhaskar ^a   Verma, Nishith ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORBENTS; CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CARBON; CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOFIBERS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); DRIERS (MATERIALS); LEAD; METAL IONS; NANOFIBERS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL;

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; CARBON AND NITROGEN; CATALYTIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; NITROGEN-DOPED CARBON NANOFIBERS; ONE STEP SYNTHESIS; ONE-STEP METHODS; POTENTIALLY TOXIC METALS; TOXIC METAL IONS;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

EID: 84929377740     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie505016d     Document Type: Article

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