Carbon quantum dots modified BiOCl ultrathin nanosheets with enhanced molecular oxygen activation ability for broad spectrum photocatalytic properties and mechanism insight

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 36, 2015, Pages 20111-20123

  Di, Jun ^a   Xia, Jiexiang ^a   Ji, Mengxia ^a   Wang, Bin ^a   Yin, Sheng ^a   Zhang, Qi ^b,c   Chen, Zhigang ^a   Li, Huaming ^a  

^a School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Institute for Energy Research ^*  (China)

^b JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HAINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

BiOCl; CQDs; photocatalytic mechanism; ultrathin nanosheets

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL REACTIONS; FREE RADICALS; INFRARED DEVICES; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MOLECULAR OXYGEN; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOSHEETS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

BIOCL; CQDS; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; ULTRATHIN NANOSHEETS; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84941639693     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05268     Document Type: Article

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