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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
卷 1, 期 3, 页码 898-905出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2ta00263a
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- National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea
- Korean Government [2011-0029409, 20120009649, 2012-0000647]
We report a facile route for the fabrication of a unique configuration of carbon-doped strings of ZnO nanoparticles obtained by subjecting solvent vapor annealing followed by direct carbonization to reconstructed block copolymer inverse micelle arrays. The dual role of a carbon (C) moiety has been exploited in significantly enhancing the catalytic performance of C-ZnO nanohybrids under the illumination of visible light. The first role is to create a new energy level above the valence band of ZnO and the other is to act as a channel by which recombination of the excitons is effectively suppressed. The enhanced visible light active photocatalytic efficiency and recyclability of C-ZnO was demonstrated in terms of degradation of a target dye (p-nitrophenol) molecule. Photoelectrochemical water splitting was also performed using C-ZnO on ITO as the working electrode. A significant enhancement in the photocurrent density was obtained for C-ZnO compared with bare ZnO. A plausible mechanism to support the enhanced visible light activity of C-ZnO was proposed.
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