Facile direct synthesis of graphene-wrapped ZnO nanospheres from cyanobacterial cells

Jiao He1, Liang Jiang1, Yongjuan Chen1

  • 1School of Chemical Sciences & Technology, National Center for International Research on Photoelectric and Energy Materials, Yunnan Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Green Chemistry for Lignite Energy, Yunnan Province Engineering Research Center of Photocatalytic Treatment of Industrial Wastewater, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China. jqwang@ynu.edu.cn.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 5, 2019
PubMed

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