Liquid-Phase Exfoliation into Monolayered BiOBr Nanosheets for Photocatalytic Oxidation and Reduction

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 10499-10508

  Yu, Hongjian ^a   Huang, Hongwei ^a   Xu, Kang ^b   Hao, Weichang ^b   Guo, Yuxi ^a   Wang, Shuobo ^a   Shen, Xiulin ^a   Pan, Shaofeng ^a   Zhang, Yihe ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

BiOBr; CO2 reduction; Liquid phase exfoliation; Monolayered nanosheets; Photodegradation

Indexed keywords

BROMINE COMPOUNDS; CARBON DIOXIDE; LIQUIDS; NANOSHEETS; PHOTODEGRADATION; SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA;

BIOBR; CO2 REDUCTION; LARGE SPECIFIC SURFACE AREAS; LIQUID PHASE; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC MATERIALS; PHOTOCATALYTIC OXIDATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85033438795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b02508     Document Type: Article

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