Performance and Mechanism of Cu, C Co-loaded ZnO Photocatalyst for Nitrogen Fixation
- Corresponding author: Wei-Rong ZHAO, wrzhao@vip.163.com
Citation: Ying-Ying MA, Yi-Fan LIU, Shan-Shan GUO, Lu-Lu YAO, Chen-Yang HUANGFU, Wei-Rong ZHAO. Performance and Mechanism of Cu, C Co-loaded ZnO Photocatalyst for Nitrogen Fixation[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ;2022, 38(2): 274-284. doi: 10.11862/CJIC.2022.007
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