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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 7, Issue 47, Pages 29428-29439Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7ra04916a
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan [MOST 105-2628-E-019-001-MY3]
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The effects of high-temperature solid-state reactions on the microstructures, optical properties, photoactivity, and low-concentration NO2 gas-sensing sensitivity of ZnO-SnO2 core-shell nanorods were investigated. In this study, the ZnO-SnO2 core-shell nanorods were synthesized through a combination of the hydrothermal method and vacuum sputtering. According to X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy analyses, high-temperature solid-state reactions between the SnO2 shell and ZnO core materials at 900 degrees C engendered an ultrathin SnO2 shell layer for transforming into the ternary Zn2SnO4 (ZTO) phase. Moreover, surface roughening was involved in the high-temperature solid-state reactions, as determined from electron microscopy images. Comparatively, the ZnO-ZTO nanorods have a higher oxygen vacancy density near the nanostructure surfaces than do the ZnO-SnO2 nanorods. The photodegradation of rhodamine B dyes under simulated solar light irradiation in presence of the ZnO-SnO2 and ZnO-ZTO nanorods revealed that the ZnO-ZTO nanorods have a higher photocatalytic activity than do the ZnO-SnO2 nanorods. Furthermore, the ZnO-ZTO nanorods exhibited higher gassensing sensitivity than did the ZnO-SnO2 nanorods on exposure to low-concentration NO2 gases. The substantial differences in the microstructure and optical properties between the ZnO-SnO2 and ZnO-ZTO nanorods accounted for the photocatalytic activity and NO2 gas-sensing results obtained in this study.
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