Facile Large-Scale Synthesis of Urea-Derived Porous Graphitic Carbon Nitride with Extraordinary Visible-Light Spectrum Photodegradation

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 55, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 4506-4514

  Fang, Hua Bin ^a   Luo, Yi ^a   Zheng, Yan Zhen ^a   Ma, Wanhong ^b   Tao, Xia ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NITRIDE; DYES; METABOLISM; NAPHTHOL; NITRIDES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; POROUS MATERIALS; UREA;

ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; HEAT TREATMENT PROCESS; LARGE SCALE SYNTHESIS; MORPHOLOGY AND STRUCTURES; PHOTODEGRADATION ACTIVITY; POROUS GRAPHITIC CARBON; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; VISIBLE-LIGHT-DRIVEN;

LIGHT;

EID: 84966393287     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.6b00041     Document Type: Article

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