A novel heterostructure of BiOI nanosheets anchored onto MWCNTs with excellent visible-light photocatalytic activity

Nanomaterials

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Li, Shijie ^a,b   Hu, Shiwei ^a   Xu, Kaibing ^c   Jiang, Wei ^a   Liu, Jianshe ^c   Wang, Zhaohui ^c,d  

^a ZHEJIANG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Zhoushan Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

MWCNTs BiOI; Nanocomposites; Photocatalysis; Visible light

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010817987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20794991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nano7010022     Document Type: Article

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