What if the Electrical Conductivity of Graphene Is Significantly Deteriorated for the Graphene-Semiconductor Composite-Based Photocatalysis?

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 50, 2015, Pages 27948-27958

  Weng, Bo ^a   Xu, Yi Jun ^a  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

composite photocatalyst; electrical conductivity; geometry effect; graphene; semiconductor

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOMETRY; PHOTOCATALYSTS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHETIC SYSTEMS; COMPOSITE PHOTOCATALYSTS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOMETRY EFFECTS; INTEGRATIVE OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOGENERATED CHARGE CARRIERS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO);

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84952683551     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b10298     Document Type: Article

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