Facile synthesis of few-layer g-C3N4/ZnO composite photocatalyst for enhancing visible light photocatalytic performance of pollutants removal

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 537, Issue , 2018, Pages 516-523

  Liu, Liang ^a   Luo, Xi ^a   Li, Yizhi ^a   Xu, Fen ^a   Gao, Zhaobo ^a   Zhang, Xiaoni ^b   Song, Yanhua ^c   Xu, Hui ^b   Li, Huaming ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Few layer g C3N4; Photo degradation; Photoactivity; ZnO nanoflowers

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; MOLECULES; NANOFLOWERS; OXYGEN; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; ZINC OXIDE;

CHARACTERIZATION METHODS; COMPOSITE PHOTOCATALYSTS; FEW-LAYER G-C3N4; OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PHOTOACTIVITY; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

ZINC COMPOUNDS;

4 CHLOROPHENOL; CARBON NANOPARTICLE; CARBON NITRIDE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; METHYLENE BLUE; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOSHEET; SUPEROXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLLUTION CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 85032334411     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: 18734359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2017.09.051     Document Type: Article

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