Enhanced photoelectrochemical perporties of graphene nanowalls-CdS composite materials

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Volumn 651, Issue , 2015, Pages 230-236

  Song, Xuefen ^a,b   Wang, Mingjun ^b   Wei, Dapeng ^a   Liu, Dun ^a   Shi, Haofei ^a   Hu, Chenguo ^b   Fang, Liang ^b   Zhang, Wei ^a   Du, Chunlei ^a  

^a University of Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CdS nanoparticles; Graphene walls; Photo electrochemical

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; ELECTRODES; GRAPHENE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES;

CDS NANOPARTICLES; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMICAL; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOCURRENT RESPONSE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS; SPATIAL SEPARATION; SUCCESSIVE IONIC LAYER ADSORPTION AND REACTIONS;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

EID: 84940042251     PISSN: 09258388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2015.08.096     Document Type: Article

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