Insight into the Role of Size Modulation on Tuning the Band Gap and Photocatalytic Performance of Semiconducting Nitrogen-Doped Graphene

Langmuir

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2017, Pages 3161-3169

  Yang, Mei Ling ^a   Zhang, Nan ^a   Lu, Kang Qiang ^a   Xu, Yi Jun ^a  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; GRAPHENE; LIGHT; MODULATION; NITROGEN; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTODEGRADATION;

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; HYDROTHERMAL TREATMENTS; NITROGEN DOPED GRAPHENE; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOGENERATED CHARGE CARRIERS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

EID: 85016944116     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03317     Document Type: Article

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