Nanoplate-Built ZnO Hollow Microspheres Decorated with Gold Nanoparticles and Their Enhanced Photocatalytic and Gas-Sensing Properties

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 11824-11832

  Xia, Weiwei ^a   Mei, Chao ^a   Zeng, Xianghua ^a   Fan, Guokang ^a   Lu, Junfeng ^b   Meng, Xiangdong ^a   Shen, Xiaoshuang ^a  

^a YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

hollow microspheres; photocatalytic; sensing properties; ZnS

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GAS DETECTORS; GOLD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSPHERES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXYGEN VACANCIES; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOTODEGRADATION; RATE CONSTANTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

DEGRADATION RATE CONSTANTS; GAS SENSING PROPERTIES; HIERARCHICAL POROUS; HOLLOW MICROSPHERE; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; SENSING PROPERTY; ZNS;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84935918007     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01333     Document Type: Article

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