Bandgap engineering of ultrathin graphene-like carbon nitride nanosheets with controllable oxygenous functionalization

Carbon

Volumn 113, Issue , 2017, Pages 63-75

  Teng, Zhenyuan ^a   Lv, Hongying ^a   Wang, Chengyin ^a   Xue, Huaiguo ^a   Pang, Huan ^a   Wang, Guoxiu ^b  

^a YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; GRAPHENE; NANOSHEETS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; POTASH; PROTONATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

BAND GAP ENGINEERING; CONCENTRATED SULFURIC ACIDS; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; INTERCALATION BEHAVIOR; PHOTO-ELECTRONIC DEVICES; POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE;

CARBON NITRIDE;

EID: 84997207226     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2016.11.030     Document Type: Article

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