Title
Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity of ZnO Nanorods/(Graphene Oxide, Reduced Graphene Oxide) for Degradation of Methyl Orange Dye
Date Issued
09 March 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
IOP Publishing Ltd
Abstract
ZnO has been well-known as a significant photocatalyst material due to its high surface area, efficient charge transport, and superior photosensitivity. Even though photocatalysis using bare ZnO NRs is useful in pollutant remediation, two main drawbacks scale down their performance as photocatalysts. First, ZnO NRs absorb mainly the UV light, which compromises a small portion of the solar spectrum, and second, the high recombination rate in the ZnO NRs prevents the path of electron-hole outward and then reduces the photocatalysis efficiency. In this work, ZnO-NRs, ZnO-NRs/Graphene Oxide (GO), and ZnO-NRs/Reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) array composites were vertically grown on conductive glass substrates of SnO2:F (FTO). The films were synthesized by hydrothermal method using ZnO seed layers deposited by spray pyrolysis technique. The nanosheets of GO and rGO were anchored onto the surface of the as-prepared ZnO-NRs by using the spray deposition technique (SDT). The photocatalytic activity of these materials was studied by analyzing the degradation of methylene orange (MO) in an aqueous solution under ultraviolet light, and we found that the decoration of ZnO-NRs with nanosheets of GO and rGO resulted in a significant enhancement of the photocatalytic degradation efficiency, where ZnO-NRs/rGO are more efficient than ZnO-NRs/GO and the latter better than pure ZnO-NRs.
Volume
2172
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Nano-materiales Ingeniería de materiales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85127283580
Source
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
ISSN of the container
17426588
Conference
4th International Smart NanoMaterials Conference 2021: Advances, Innovation and Applications, SNAIA 2021
Source funding
FONDECYT
FONDECYT
Sponsor(s)
The work described in this paper was financially supported by the projects CONCYTEC (FONDECYT and GRUPO BANCO MUNDIAL) under the contract numbers N° 032-2019-FONDECYT-BM-INC.INV and N° 120-2018-FONDECYT.
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