Nature-Mimic Method to Fabricate Polydopamine/Graphitic Carbon Nitride for Enhancing Photocatalytic Degradation Performance

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 7840-7850

  Yu, Zongxue ^a   Li, Fei ^a   Yang, Qiangbin ^a   Shi, Heng ^a   Chen, Qi ^a   Xu, Min ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Graphitic carbon nitride; Methylene blue; Photocatalytic; Polydopamine; Visible light irradiation

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON NITRIDE; CATALYSTS; DEGRADATION; DYES; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NITRIDES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

GRAPHITIC CARBON NITRIDES; METHYLENE BLUE; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; POLYDOPAMINE; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

PHOTODEGRADATION;

EID: 85028872823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b01313     Document Type: Article

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