Synthesis of Spherical Carbon Nitride-Based Polymer Composites by Continuous Aerosol-Photopolymerization with Efficient Light Harvesting

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 33, 2016, Pages 21731-21741

  Poostforooshan, Jalal ^a,b   Badiei, Alireza ^a   Kolahdouz, Mohammadreza ^a   Weber, Alfred P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

aerosol photopolymerization; carbon nitride based polymer composite; efficient light harvesting; FDTD method; spherical mesoporous carbon nitride

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; HARVESTING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; NANOPARTICLES; NITRIDES; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; SPHERES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; LIGHT-HARVESTING; MESOPOROUS CARBON NITRIDES; MULTIFUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; N-METHYLDIETHANOLAMINE; POLYMER COMPOSITE; SPHERICAL MESOPOROUS SILICA; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHODS;

CARBON NITRIDE;

EID: 84983528171     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b07909     Document Type: Article

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