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CRYSTENGCOMM
Volume 13, Issue 20, Pages 6218-6222Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1ce05503h
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- National Science Council of the Republic of China (Taiwan) [NSC-98-2213-M-009-015-MY2, NSC-97-2221-E-007-049, NSC-98-2221-E-007-034-MY3]
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Ultrafast formation of ZnO mesocrystals was achieved with a facile, green, Tris-assisted, room temperature ionic liquid based antisolvent process. A deep eutectic solvent, formed by simply mixing and heating urea and choline chloride at 70 degrees C, served as the solvent for ZnO, whereas Tris-containing de-ionized water acted as the anti-solvent to trigger the ultrafast formation of ZnO mesocrystals at 70 degrees C. The product mesocrystals were mesoporous and near-single-crystalline with high specific surface areas, showing excellent photocatalytic activities toward photodegradation of methylene blue, comparable to that of a commercial photocatalyst, P-25 TiO(2), which is rarely achieved for pristine ZnO. The present approach is a general one and can be readily extended to production of mesocrystals of other functional metal oxides.
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