Photocatalytic decolorization of crystal violet in aqueous nano-ZnO suspension under visible light irradiation

Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Habib, Md Ahsan ^a   Muslim, Muhammad ^a   Shahadat, Md Tusan ^a   Islam, Md Nazrul ^b   Ismail, Iqbal Mohmmad Ibrahim ^c   Islam, Tajmeri Selima Akhter ^a   Mahmood, Abu Jafar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b KHULNA UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Decolorization degradation; Lagergren model; Langmuir Hinshelwood model; Nanosize ZnO; Photocatalyst

Indexed keywords

EID: 85135215855     PISSN: 20089244     EISSN: 21938865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-8865-3-70     Document Type: Article

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