Insight into the enhanced photocatalytic activity of potassium and iodine codoped graphitic carbon nitride photocatalysts

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 120, Issue 44, 2016, Pages 25328-25337

  Guo, Yarong ^a   Chen, Tianxiang ^a   Liu, Qiong ^a   Zhang, Zhengguo ^a   Fang, Xiaoming ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NITRIDE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; IODINE; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NITRIDES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS; GRAPHITIC CARBON NITRIDES; OPTICAL ABSORPTION EDGE; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; THERMAL POLYMERIZATIONS; VISIBLE-LIGHT RESPONSE;

PHOTOCATALYSTS;

EID: 85017281537     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b06921     Document Type: Article

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