Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Quantum Dots/BiOBr Ultrathin Nanosheets: In Situ Strong Coupling and Improved Molecular Oxygen Activation Ability under Visible Light Irradiation

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 136-146

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

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HAINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

BiOBr; Ionic liquid; Molecular oxygen; N CQDs; Photocatalytic

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); IONIC LIQUIDS; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; LIQUIDS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOSHEETS; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLLUTION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

BIOBR; NITROGEN-DOPED CARBONS; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; TETRACYCLINE HYDROCHLORIDE; ULTRATHIN NANOSHEETS; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

MOLECULAR OXYGEN;

EID: 84953250873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b00862     Document Type: Article

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