In Situ Grown TiO2 Nanospindles Facilitate the Formation of Holey Reduced Graphene Oxide by Photodegradation

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 7403-7410

  Peng, Guiming ^a,b,c,d   Ellis, James E ^b   Xu, Gang ^c   Xu, Xueqing ^c   Star, Alexander ^b  

^a JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; catalysis; graphene; oxidation; oxygen reduction reaction; titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; GRAPHENE; METAL IONS; METALS; OXIDATION; OXIDES; REDUCTION; TITANIUM; YARN;

FORMATION OF HOLE; MESOPOROUS ANATASE TIO; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOCATALYTIC OXIDATIONS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO); THERMAL REDUCTION;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CHEMISTRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

GRAPHITE; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; TITANIUM;

EID: 84962128623     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b01188     Document Type: Article

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