A Chelation Strategy for In-situ Constructing Surface Oxygen Vacancy on {001} Facets Exposed BiOBr Nanosheets

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wang, Xiao Jing ^a   Zhao, Ying ^b   Li, Fa Tang ^a   Dou, Li Jun ^a   Li, Yu Pei ^a   Zhao, Jun ^a   Hao, Ying Juan ^a  

^a HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEBEI   (China)

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EID: 84964689562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep24918     Document Type: Article

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