Carbon Quantum Dots Induced Ultrasmall BiOI Nanosheets with Assembled Hollow Structures for Broad Spectrum Photocatalytic Activity and Mechanism Insight

Langmuir

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2075-2084

  Di, Jun ^a   Xia, Jiexiang ^a   Ji, Mengxia ^a   Wang, Bin ^a   Yin, Sheng ^a   Xu, Hui ^a   Chen, Zhigang ^a   Li, Huaming ^a  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BIODEGRADATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS; FREE RADICALS; IONIC LIQUIDS; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MICROSPHERES; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOSHEETS; PHENOLS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICALS; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC SYSTEMS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; ROOM-TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; SEPARATION EFFICIENCY;

BOROPHOSPHATE GLASS;

EID: 84959284902     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b04308     Document Type: Article

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