Open AccessThe Fabrication of ZnO Microrods on Monolayer Graphene and Their Photocatalytic Application
Author(s) -
Jincheng Fan,
Tengfei Li,
Hang Heng,
Branimir Marković,
Igor Marković
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
acta chimica slovenica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.289
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1580-3155
pISSN - 1318-0207
DOI - 10.17344/acsi.2015.1670
Subject(s) - graphene , photocatalysis , fabrication , monolayer , materials science , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , chemistry , catalysis , organic chemistry , engineering , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Zinc oxide (ZnO) microrods were fabricated on graphene/SiO(2)/Si substrate by a simple hydrothermal route. The obtained products were characterized using X-ray powder diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry, photoluminescence and UV-visible spectrometry. Microrods exhibits hexagonal wurzite structure. Some ZnO clusters and twinned ZnO structures were found spread on the microrod array layer. The formation mechanism of ZnO microrods is discussed, emphasizing the formation mechanism of isolated clusters and twinned ZnO structures. Furthermore, microrods demonstrated a good photocatalytic performance towards rhodamine B degradation as ascribed to oxygen vacancies and interstitials considered as the photocatalytical active sites.