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Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 783686, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/783686
Editorial

Synthesis, Characterization, Properties, and Applications of Nanosized Photocatalytic Materials

Jiaguo Yu,1 Mietek Jaroniec,2 Huogen Yu,3 and Wenhong Fan4

1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Material Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Luoshi Road 122, Wuhan 430070, China
2Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
3Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
4School of Chemistry and Environment, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing 100191, China

Received 1 October 2012; Accepted 1 October 2012

Copyright © 2012 Jiaguo Yu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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