Efficient synthesis of sunlight-driven ZnO-based heterogeneous photocatalysts

Materials and Design

Volumn 98, Issue , 2016, Pages 324-332

  Chang, Xueting ^a   Li, Zhongliang ^a   Zhai, Xinxin ^a   Sun, Shibin ^a   Gu, Danxia ^a   Dong, Lihua ^a   Yin, Yansheng ^a   Zhu, Yanqiu ^b  

^a SHANGHAI MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous; Photocatalyst; Reduced graphene oxide; Solvothermal; ZnO

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC OXIDE;

ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROMETRY; HETEROGENEOUS; HETEROGENEOUS PHOTOCATALYSTS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO); SOLVOTHERMAL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE EFFECTS; X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROMETRIES;

SILVER;

EID: 84963620786     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2016.03.027     Document Type: Article

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