Construction of nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dots-BiVO4/g-C3N4 Z -scheme photocatalyst and enhanced photocatalytic degradation of antibiotics under visible light

RSC Advances

Volumn 6, Issue 66, 2016, Pages 61162-61174

  Yan, Ming ^a   Zhu, Fangfang ^a   Gu, Wei ^a   Sun, Lin ^a   Shi, Weidong ^a   Hua, Yinqun ^a  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHENE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NANOCRYSTALS; NITROGEN; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; NITROGEN DOPED GRAPHENE; OXIDATION AND REDUCTION; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC EFFICIENCY; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84976909138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c6ra07589d     Document Type: Article

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