Floating photocatalyst of B-N-TiO 2 /expanded perlite: a sol-gel synthesis with optimized mesoporous and high photocatalytic activity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Xue, Hongbo ^a   Jiang, Ya ^a   Yuan, Kechun ^a   Yang, Tingting ^a   Hou, Jianhua ^a   Cao, Chuanbao ^b   Feng, Ke ^a   Wang, Xiaozhi ^a  

^a YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84979031712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep29902     Document Type: Article

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