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methods of activated carbon for its water treatment applications. Chem Eng J 219:499–511
Blake P, Hill E, Castro Neto A, Novoselov K, Jiang D, Yang R, Booth T, Geim A (2007) Making
graphene visible. Appl Phys Lett 91:063124
Boehm H, Setton R, Stumpp E (1986) Nomenclature and terminology of graphite intercalation
compounds. Carbon 24:241–245
Cai W, Yu J, Mann S (2009) Template-free hydrothermal fabrication of hierarchically organized
γ-AlOOH hollow microspheres. Microporous Mesoporous Mater 122:42–47
Cao S, Low J, Yu J, Jaroniec M (2015) Polymeric photocatalysts based on graphitic carbon nitride.
Adv Mater 27:2150–2176
Casbeer E, Sharma VK, Li X-Z (2012) Synthesis and photocatalytic activity of ferrites under visible
light: a review. Sep Purif Technol 87:1–14
Chandra V, Park J, Chun Y, Lee JW, Hwang I-C, Kim KS (2010) Water-dispersible magnetitereduced graphene oxide composites for arsenic removal. ACS Nano 4:3979–3986
Chandra S, Das P, Bag S, Bhar R, Pramanik P (2012) Mn 2 O 3 decorated graphene nanosheet: an
advanced material for the photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes. Mater Sci Eng B
177:855–861
Chang Y-C (2014) ZnO nanopinecone arrays with enhanced photocatalytic performance in sunlight. RSC Adv 4:20273–20280
Chang Y-P, Ren C-L, Qu J-C, Chen X-G (2012) Preparation and characterization of Fe 3 O 4 /
graphene nanocomposite and investigation of its adsorption performance for aniline and
p-chloroaniline. Appl Surf Sci 261:504–509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2012.08.045
Chen T, Feng Z, Wu G, Shi J, Ma G, Ying P, Li C (2007) Mechanistic studies of photocatalytic
reaction of methanol for hydrogen production on Pt/TiO 2 by in situ Fourier transform IR and
time-resolved IR spectroscopy. J Phys Chem C 111:8005–8014
Chen C, Ma W, Zhao J (2010) Semiconductor-mediated photodegradation of pollutants under
visible-light irradiation. Chem Soc Rev 39:4206–4219
Chong MN, Jin B, Chow CW, Saint C (2010) Recent developments in photocatalytic water
treatment technology: a review. Water Res 44:2997–3027
Compton OC, Nguyen ST (2010) Graphene oxide, highly reduced graphene oxide, and graphene:
versatile building blocks for carbon-based materials. Small 6:711–723
Dąbrowski A (2001) Adsorption—from theory to practice. Adv Colloid Interf Sci 93:135–224
Du A, Ng YH, Bell NJ, Zhu Z, Amal R, Smith SC (2011) Hybrid graphene/titania nanocomposite:
Interface charge transfer, hole doping, and sensitization for visible light response. J Phys Chem
Lett 2:894–899. https://doi.org/10.1021/jz2002698
Emtsev KV, Bostwick A, Horn K, Jobst J, Kellogg GL, Ley L, McChesney JL, Ohta T, Reshanov
SA, Röhrl J (2009) Towards wafer-size graphene layers by atmospheric pressure graphitization
of silicon carbide. Nat Mater 8:203–207
Fageria P, Gangopadhyay S, Pande S (2014) Synthesis of ZnO/Au and ZnO/Ag nanoparticles and
their photocatalytic application using UV and visible light. RSC Adv 4:24962–24972
Fan H, Zhao X, Yang J, Shan X, Yang L, Zhang Y, Li X, Gao M (2012) ZnO–graphene composite
for photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue dye. Catal Commun 29:29–34
Farhangi N, Chowdhury RR, Medina-Gonzalez Y, Ray MB, Charpentier PA (2011) Visible light
active Fe doped TiO 2 nanowires grown on graphene using supercritical CO 2 . Appl Catal B
110:25–32
Ferrari AC, Meyer J, Scardaci V, Casiraghi C, Lazzeri M, Mauri F, Piscanec S, Jiang D,
Novoselov K, Roth S (2006) Raman spectrum of graphene and graphene layers. Phys Rev
Lett 97:187401
Feynman RP, Leighton RB, Sands M (2013) The Feynman lectures on physics, desktop edition
volume I, vol 1. Basic books, New York, pp 1–52
Friedmann D, Mendive C, Bahnemann D (2010) TiO 2 for water treatment: parameters affecting the
kinetics and mechanisms of photocatalysis. Appl Catal B 99:398–406
26
F. Opoku et al.