Nickel decorated on phosphorous-doped carbon nitride as an efficient photocatalyst for reduction of nitrobenzenes

Nanomaterials

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Kumar, Anurag ^a,b   Kumar, Pawan ^a,b   Joshi, Chetan ^a   Manchanda, Manvi ^a   Boukherroub, Rabah ^c   Jain, Suman L ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM   (India)

^b ACADEMY OF SCIENTIFIC AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH   (India)

^c INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Carbon nitride; Nickel nanoparticles; Nitrobenzene reduction; Photocatalysis; Visible light

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962384907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20794991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nano6040059     Document Type: Article

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