Face-to-Face Interfacial Assembly of Ultrathin g-C3N4 and Anatase TiO2 Nanosheets for Enhanced Solar Photocatalytic Activity

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 9, Issue 34, 2017, Pages 28674-28684

  Gu, Wenli ^a,b   Lu, Feixue ^a,b   Wang, Chao ^a   Kuga, Shigenori ^a   Wu, Lizhu ^a   Huang, Yong ^a   Wu, Min ^a  

^a TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

g C3N4; photocatalysis; TiO2; two dimension; ultrathin nanosheet

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; DYES; MONOLAYERS; OXYGEN VACANCIES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

G-C3N4; HYDROTHERMAL TREATMENTS; INTERFACIAL ASSEMBLY; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTODEGRADATION RATE; TIO2; TWO-DIMENSION; ULTRATHIN NANOSHEETS;

NANOSHEETS;

EID: 85028680218     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b10010     Document Type: Article

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