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Hong Wang1, Xiaoli Zheng, Haining Chen
1Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China. chsyang@ust.hk.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 4, 2014
Abstract:
We show the spontaneous formation of multiple nanoscale carbon p-n junctions between carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and negatively charged N,B-codoped graphene (NBG). Application of these carbon nanocomposites to catalyze the selective oxidation of an organic amine to imine resulted in an unprecedented activity under mild conditions.
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