Metal-free graphene-carbon nitride hybrids for photodegradation of organic pollutants in water

Catalysis Today

Volumn 258, Issue , 2015, Pages 668-675

  Ai, Bing ^a,b   Duan, Xiaoguang ^b   Sun, Hongqi ^b   Qiu, Xiang ^b   Wang, Shaobin ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

g C3N4; Graphene; Metal free; Methylene blue; Phenol; Photocatalysis

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON; CARBON NITRIDE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; GRAPHENE; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METALS; NITRIDES; PHENOLS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTOOXIDATION; POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; G-C3N4; GRAPHITIC CARBON NITRIDES; HYBRID PHOTOCATALYSTS; METAL FREE; METHYLENE BLUE; PHOTODEGRADATION EFFICIENCY; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO);

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84945470607     PISSN: 09205861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2015.01.024     Document Type: Article

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