Fabricating the Robust g-C3N4 Nanosheets/Carbons/NiS Multiple Heterojunctions for Enhanced Photocatalytic H2 Generation: An Insight into the Trifunctional Roles of Nanocarbons

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 2224-2236

  Wen, Jiuqing ^a   Xie, Jun ^a   Yang, Zhuohong ^a   Shen, Rongchen ^a   Li, Huiyi ^a   Luo, Xingyi ^a   Chen, Xiaobo ^b   Li, Xin ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

g C3N4; Graphene; NiS co catalysts; Photocatalytic hydrogen evolution; Trifunctional nanocarbons

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CARBON; CARBON BLACK; CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSTS; GRAPHENE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); YARN;

CO CATALYSTS; COMPOSITE PHOTOCATALYSTS; G-C3N4; NANOCARBONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC APPLICATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO);

PHOTOCATALYSTS;

EID: 85014536547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b02490     Document Type: Article

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