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Water pollution remediation: synthesis of gray-Tio2/Zno/α-Fe2o3 ternary composite for the photocatalytic degradation of Direct Red 28 dye under solar light

Muhammad Naveed Anjum, Muhammad Abdul Qayyum, Zunaira Zulfiqar, Mirza Nadeem Ahmad, Muhammad Jawwad Saif, Ali Bahadur, Shahid Iqbal, Sajid Mahmood, Khalid M. Alotaibi, Abd-ElAziem Farouk

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