A facile ultrasonic-assisted fabrication of nitrogen-doped carbon dots/BiOBr up-conversion nanocomposites for visible light photocatalytic enhancements

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Zhang, Yifan ^a   Park, Mira ^b   Kim, Hak Yong ^b   Ding, Bin ^c   Park, Soo Jin ^a  

^a Inha University   (South Korea)

^b Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^c DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 85016163610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep45086     Document Type: Article

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