Rational Design of α-Fe2O3/Reduced Graphene Oxide Composites: Rapid Detection and Effective Removal of Organic Pollutants

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 6431-6438

  Zhang, Lili ^a   Bao, Zhiwei ^a   Yu, Xinxin ^a   Dai, Peng ^a   Zhu, Jin ^a   Wu, Mingzai ^a   Li, Guang ^a   Liu, Xiansong ^a   Sun, Zhaoqi ^a   Chen, Changle ^b  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

hydrothermal synthesis; photocatalytic degradation; reduced graphene oxide; surface enhanced Raman scattering; Fe2O3

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; POLLUTION; POLLUTION DETECTION; RAMAN SCATTERING; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE SCATTERING;

MECHANICAL MIXTURES; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTODEGRADATION RATE; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; SELF-CLEANING PROPERTIES; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSTS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84962332120     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b11292     Document Type: Article

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