Rapid degradation of methylene blue in a novel heterogeneous Fe3O4 @rGO@TiO2-catalyzed photo-Fenton system

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Yang, Xiaoling ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Huang, Jianfei ^a   Zhou, Ying ^a   Zhu, Yihua ^a   Li, Chunzhong ^a  

^a East China University of Science and Technology   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTON'S REAGENT; GRAPHITE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IRON; MAGNETITE; METHYLENE BLUE; NANOCOMPOSITE; OXIDE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CATALYSIS; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; GRAPHITE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IRON; LIGHT; METHYLENE BLUE; NANOCOMPOSITES; OXIDES; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TITANIUM;

EID: 84930199310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10632     Document Type: Article

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