Nickel Nanoparticle-Decorated Porous Carbons for Highly Active Catalytic Reduction of Organic Dyes and Sensitive Detection of Hg(II) Ions

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 44, 2015, Pages 24810-24821

  Veerakumar, Pitchaimani ^a   Chen, Shen Ming ^b   Madhu, Rajesh ^b   Veeramani, Vediyappan ^b   Hung, Chin Te ^a   Liu, Shang Bin ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

cyclic voltammetry; fish extract; nickel nanoparticles; organic dyes; porous activated carbon; toxic metal ions

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; DYES; FISH; HEAVY METALS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METAL IONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALS; NANOPARTICLES; NICKEL; POROUS MATERIALS; REDUCTION; SELF ASSEMBLY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VOLTAMMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

DIFFERENTIAL PULSE VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; FIELD-EMISSION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; FISH EXTRACT; NICKEL NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC DYE; TOXIC METAL IONS; VIBRATING SAMPLE MAGNETOMETRY;

CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY;

EID: 84947080389     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b07900     Document Type: Article

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