Tunable oxygen activation induced by oxygen defects in nitrogen doped carbon quantum dots for sustainable boosting photocatalysis

Carbon

Volumn 114, Issue , 2017, Pages 601-607

  Di, Jun ^a   Xia, Jiexiang ^a   Chen, Xiaoliu ^a   Ji, Mengxia ^a   Yin, Sheng ^a   Zhang, Qi ^a   Li, Huaming ^a  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DEFECTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); IONIC LIQUIDS; IRRADIATION; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NANOCRYSTALS; NITROGEN; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; OXYGEN; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLLUTION; REUSABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; STORM SEWERS; SURFACE DEFECTS;

CARBON QUANTUM DOTS; NITROGEN-DOPED CARBONS; ORGANIC SYNTHESIS; OXYGEN ACTIVATIONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SOLVOTHERMAL METHOD; SUPEROXIDE RADICAL;

MOLECULAR OXYGEN;

EID: 85007319883     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2016.12.030     Document Type: Article

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