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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN ELECTRONICS
Volume 29, Issue 5, Pages 3808-3816Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s10854-017-8316-1
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- Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), New Delhi [PDF/2017/000691]
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In the present work, layered WO3/ZnO thin films have been prepared by simple chemical spray pyrolysis method. As prepared films are characterized by photoelectrochemical (PEC) solar cell, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy, Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), Brunauer-Emmer-Teller (BET) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy techniques. XRD analysis reveals the formation of hexagonal and monoclinic phases of ZnO and WO3 respectively. Raman analysis confirms the formation of layered WO3/ZnO thin films. FE-SEM images demonstrate that the surface morphology of layered WO3/ZnO consists of nano balls like morphology. The specific surface area of the layered WO3/ZnO thin film is found to be 65.12 m(2) g(-1). The photoelectrocatalytic degradation properties of layered WO3/ZnO thin films were investigated by studying degradation of sugarcane factory wastewater. The end result shows that the degradation percentage of sugarcane factory wastewater using layered WO3/ZnO photo electrode has reached 94.44% after 100 min. under sunlight illumination.
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