Inorganic salt-assisted fabrication of graphitic carbon nitride with enhanced photocatalytic degradation of Rhodamine B

Materials Letters

Volumn 188, Issue , 2017, Pages 130-133

  Luo, Lei ^a   Zhang, Anfeng ^a   Janik, Michael J ^b   Li, Keyan ^a   Song, Chunshan ^a,b   Guo, Xinwen ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon materials; Porous materials; Semiconductors

Indexed keywords

CARBON NITRIDE; CATALYST ACTIVITY; NANOSHEETS; NITRIDES; POROUS MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SPECTROMETRY;

CARBON MATERIAL; CATALYTIC PROPERTIES; ENVIRONMENTAL-FRIENDLY; GRAPHITIC CARBON NITRIDES; MESOPOROUS SURFACES; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

PHOTODEGRADATION;

EID: 85006295247     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: 18734979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2016.11.043     Document Type: Article

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