Enhanced Photocatalytic Degradation of Dye Wastewater Using ZnO/Reduced Graphene Oxide Hybrids

Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 917-921

  Fan, Fuling ^a   Wang, Xinqiang ^a   Ma, Yanxia ^a   Fu, Kai ^a   Yang, Yi ^a  

^a ZHONGYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

nanocomposite; photocatalyst; reduced graphene oxide; ZnO

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; GRAPHENE; IRRADIATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; PHOTOCATALYSTS; ZINC;

HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY; PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; ULTRAVIOLET LIGHTS; UV-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84963791922     PISSN: 1536383X     EISSN: 15364046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1536383X.2015.1013187     Document Type: Article

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