Green synthesis of ZnO hollow sphere nanostructures by a facile route at room temperature with efficient photocatalytic dye degradation properties

RSC Advances

Volumn 5, Issue 130, 2015, Pages 107378-107388

  Mousavi, Seyed Mohsen ^a   Mahjoub, Ali Reza ^a   Abazari, Reza ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; CARBON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENAMELS; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPHERES; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC OXIDE;

DYE PHOTODEGRADATION; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA REDS; HOLLOW SPHERICAL NANO-PARTICLES; PHOTOCATALYTIC CHARACTERISTICS; PHOTOCATALYTIC DYE DEGRADATIONS; POWDER X-RAY DIFFRACTION (PXRD); VISIBLE IRRADIATION;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84952333947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5ra19507a     Document Type: Article

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