Few-layered graphene-like boron nitride: A highly efficient adsorbent for indoor formaldehyde removal

Environmental Science and Technology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 20-25

  Ye, Jiawei ^a   Zhu, Xiaofeng ^a   Cheng, Bei ^a   Yu, Jiaguo ^a   Jiang, Chuanjia ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BORIC ACID; BORON NITRIDE; FORMALDEHYDE; NITRIDES;

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; ADSORPTION PERFORMANCE; DISPROPORTIONATION REACTIONS; FLEXIBLE NETWORKS; FORMALDEHYDE REMOVALS; GASEOUS FORMALDEHYDE; LARGE SPECIFIC SURFACE AREAS; POROUS BORON NITRIDES;

III-V SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 85016262525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.6b00426     Document Type: Article

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