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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
Volume 19, Issue 31, Pages 5547-5553Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b902883h
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Natural Science Foundation of China [20873138, 20873136]
- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry
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Catalytic degradation of organic dye molecules has attracted extensive attention due to their high toxicity to water resources. In this paper, we propose a novel method for the fabrication of uniform silver-coated ZnO nanowire arrays. The degradation of typical dye molecule rhodamine 6G (R6G), as an example, is investigated in the presence of the as-prepared silver-coated ZnO nanowire arrays. The experimental results show that such composite nanostructures exhibit high catalytic activity, and the reaction follows pseudo-first-order kinetics. Furthermore, these nanowire arrays are desirable SERS substrates for monitoring the catalytic degradation of dye molecules. Compared with traditional UV-visible spectroscopy, SERS technology can reflect more truly the catalytic degradation process occurring on the surface of the catalysts.
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