TiO2/graphene porous composite and its photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue

Materials and Design

Volumn 108, Issue , 2016, Pages 632-639

  Yang, Yongfang ^a   Xu, Lidong ^a   Wang, Hefang ^a   Wang, Wenjie ^a   Zhang, Lixin ^a  

^a HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Graphene; Methylene blue; Photocatalytic; Porous; TiO2

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHENE; LIGHT; RATE CONSTANTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA RED (FTIR) SPECTROSCOPY; METHYLENE BLUE; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; POROUS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO); STRUCTURE AND MORPHOLOGY; VISIBLE-LIGHT-DRIVEN;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84978288312     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2016.06.104     Document Type: Article

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