Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Disinfection Performance and Organic Pollutant Degradation Activity of Porous g-C3N4 Nanosheets

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 9, Issue 33, 2017, Pages 27727-27735

  Xu, Jing ^a   Wang, Zhouping ^a   Zhu, Yongfa ^b  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

disinfection; g C3N4; mesoporosity; nanosheets; photocatalysis; pollutant degradation; visible light

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; AZO DYES; CHARGE TRANSFER; DISINFECTION; DYES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIGHT; NANOSHEETS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; POLLUTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI (E. COLI); G-C3N4; MESOPOROSITY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT DEGRADATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC DISINFECTIONS; POLLUTANT DEGRADATION; VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE LIGHT DRIVEN PHOTOCATALYSTS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

EID: 85028052697     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b07657     Document Type: Article

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