Fabrication of Na-W Co-Doped Exfoliated G-C3N4 Nanoparticles for Methylene Blue Removal

Subject Areas : Composite materials

Mohammad Javad Hakimi-Tehrani ¹ , Seyed Ali Hassanzadeh Tabrizi ² , Narjes Koupaei ³ , Ali Saffar ⁴ , Mahdi Rafiei ⁵

1 - Advanced Materials Research Center, Department of Materials Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.
2 - Advanced Materials Research Center, Department of Materials Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.
3 - Advanced Materials Research Center, Department of Materials Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.
4 - Advanced Materials Research Center, Department of Materials Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.
5 - Advanced Materials Research Center, Department of Materials Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.

Received: 2022-07-08 Accepted : 2022-08-30 Published : 2022-11-01

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