Advanced Fabrication of Chemically Bonded Graphene/TiO2 Continuous Fibers with Enhanced Broadband Photocatalytic Properties and Involved Mechanisms Exploration

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Qingzhe ^a,b   Bao, Nan ^a   Wang, Xinqiang ^a   Hu, Xinde ^a   Miao, Xinhan ^a   Chaker, Mohamed ^b   Ma, Dongling ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

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EID: 85000402170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep38066     Document Type: Article

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