High-Yield Production of Boron Nitride Nanosheets and Its Uses as a Catalyst Support for Hydrogenation of Nitroaromatics

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 15, 2016, Pages 9881-9888

  Sun, Wenliang ^a   Meng, Yuan ^a   Fu, Qinrui ^a   Wang, Fei ^a   Wang, Guojie ^a   Gao, Wenhua ^a   Huang, Xiaochun ^a   Lu, Fushen ^a  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

boron nitride sheets; catalyst; exfoliation; hydrogenation; nitrobenzene; palladium nanoparticle

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE; CATALYST SUPPORTS; CATALYSTS; HYDROGENATION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSHEETS; NITRIDES; NITROBENZENE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

BORON NITRIDE NANOSHEETS; BORON NITRIDE SHEETS; DEPOSITION PRECIPITATION METHODS; EXFOLIATION; HETEROGENEOUS CATALYST; PALLADIUM NANOPARTICLES; PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 84966355965     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b01008     Document Type: Article

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