Various facet tunable ZnO crystals by a scalable solvothermal synthesis and their facet-dependent photocatalytic activities

M Huang, S Weng, B Wang, J Hu, X Fu… - The Journal of Physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The facet-dependent photocatalytic performance of ZnO is still controversial, for the reason
that ZnO samples with different high energy facets are hard to prepare. In this paper, three …

Highly sensitive ethanol gas sensor using pyramid-shaped ZnO particles with (0001) basal plane

N Saito, K Watanabe, H Haneda… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
For monitoring of air quality and medical diagnosis, metal-oxide-semiconductor particles
with high sensitivity to detect small amount of gases are desirable. Herein, we report the …

High-index crystal plane of ZnO nanopyramidal structures: Stabilization, growth, and improved photocatalytic performance

T Lim, PS Mirabedini, K Jung, PA Greaney… - Applied Surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
While the low-index planes of Wurtzite ZnO, such as {0001} and {10 1¯ 0} are well-
understood, the high-index crystal surfaces have not yet been thoroughly researched …

Facet-dependent photoreduction on single ZnO crystals

E Debroye, J Van Loon, H Yuan… - The journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Photocatalytic reactions occur at the crystal–solution interface, and hence specific crystal
facet expression and surface defects can play an important role. Here we investigate the …

High photocatalytic activity of transparent films composed of ZnO nanosheets

J Hynek, V Kalousek, R Žouželka, P Bezdička… - Langmuir, 2014 - ACS Publications
Nanometric thin films were prepared by dip-coating and inkjet printing ZnO nanosheets on
glass plates. The side-by-side alignment of the ZnO nanosheets on the substrate resulted in …

From the absolute surface energy to the stabilization mechanism of high index polar surface in wurtzite structure: The case of ZnO

C Ma, W Jin, X Duan, X Ma, H Han, Z Zhang… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2019 - Elsevier
An improved wedge-shape method is employed to calculate the absolute surface energies
of wurtzite ZnO high index polar surfaces. From the viewpoints of atomic structure and …

Water adsorption behaviors of high index polar surfaces in ZnO

C Ma, W Jin, X Ma, H Han, J Yu, Y Wu - Applied surface science, 2019 - Elsevier
The density functional theory method study is performed to investigate the adsorption
structures and mechanisms of water adsorption on ZnO high index polar surfaces. It is found …

Crystallography facet tailoring of carbon doped ZnO nanorods via selective etching

X Duan, G Chen, P Gao, W Jin, X Ma, Y Yin, H Ye… - Applied Surface …, 2017 - Elsevier
Using a facile hydrothermal method, we have successfully synthesized carbon doped (C-
doped) ZnO nanorods with standard hexagonal column shapes. To modify their …

Microscopic and Isotope Tracer Study on the Growth of Spherical ZnO Particles in Water–Ethylene Glycol Solvent

N Saito, K Matsumoto, K Watanabe… - Crystal Growth & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
ZnO spherical powder with hierarchical structure was synthesized from zinc acetate
anhydride and hexamethylenetetramine in a solvent of water and ethylene glycol (EG), and …

Dissolving behavior and electrical properties of ZnO wire in HCl solution

J Qi, K Zhang, Z Ji, M Xu, Z Wang, Y Zhang - RSC Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Study of the service behavior of nanomaterials is very important for real applications of
nanodevices. In this paper, the dissolving behavior of ZnO wire in HCl solution was …