Polymeric Carbon Nitride/Reduced Graphene Oxide/Fe2 O3 : All-Solid-State Z-Scheme System for Photocatalytic Overall

Zhiming Pan1, Guigang Zhang1, Xinchen Wang1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P. R. China.

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