Tartaric acid assisted hydrothermal synthesis of different flower-like ZnO hierarchical architectures with tunable optical and oxygen vacancy-induced photocatalytic properties

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 357, Issue , 2015, Pages 516-529

  Liu, Tingzhi ^a   Li, Yangyang ^a   Zhang, Hao ^a   Wang, Min ^a   Fei, Xiaoyan ^a   Duo, Shuwang ^a   Chen, Ying ^a   Pan, Jian ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a JIANGXI SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flower like; Hydrothermal synthesis; Optical property; Photocatalytic performance; ZnO hierarchical architectures

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; ASPECT RATIO; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; VACANCIES; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

FLOWER-LIKE; HEXAGONAL WURTZITE STRUCTURE; HIERARCHICAL ARCHITECTURES; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY; SHAPED NANOPARTICLES; STRUCTURE DIRECTING AGENTS;

OXYGEN VACANCIES;

EID: 84949494770     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2015.09.031     Document Type: Article

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