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International Journal of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Volume 3 (2017), Article ID 3:IJMME-135, 5 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2455-2372/2017/135
Research Article
Improved Fabrication Method for Porous PMMA-titania Composite Photocatalytic Materials

Justin D. Glover1, Autumn G. Horne1, Jeron D. Crawford1 and Joel E. Boyd1,2*

1Department of Chemistry, Erskine College, Washington St, Due West, SC 29639, USA
2Center for Environmental Stewardship, Erskine College, Washington St, Due West, SC 29639, USA
Prof. Joel E. Boyd, Department of Chemistry, Erskine College and Center for Environmental Stewardship, 2 Washington St, Due West, SC 29639, USA; E-mail: boyd@erskine.edu
16 April 2015; 01 July 2017; 03 July 2017
Glover JD, Horne AG, Crawford JD, Boyd JE (2017) Improved Fabrication Method for Porous PMMA-titania Composite Photocatalytic Materials. Int J Metall Mater Eng 3: 135. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2455-2372/2017/135
J. Glover was funded in part by a grant from the South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities. Additional funding was provided by the Erskine Center for Environmental Stewardship.
© 2017 Glover et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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