Recent developments of zinc oxide based photocatalyst in water treatment technology: a review

KM Lee, CW Lai, KS Ngai, JC Juan - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
Today, a major issue about water pollution is the residual dyes from different sources (eg,
textile industries, paper and pulp industries, dye and dye intermediates industries …

Synthesis, characterization, and applications of ZnO nanowires

Y Zhang, MK Ram, EK Stefanakos… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
ZnO nanowires (or nanorods) have been widely studied due to their unique material
properties and remarkable performance in electronics, optics, and photonics. Recently …

High piezo-photocatalytic efficiency of CuS/ZnO nanowires using both solar and mechanical energy for degrading organic dye

D Hong, W Zang, X Guo, Y Fu, H He… - … applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
High piezo-photocatalytic efficiency of degrading organic pollutants has been realized from
CuS/ZnO nanowires using both solar and mechanical energy. CuS/ZnO heterostructured …

Research progresses in preparation methods and applications of zinc oxide nanoparticles

Z Jiang, B Liu, L Yu, Y Tong, M Yan, R Zhang… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs) are among the materials that have been
consistently developed in the field of nanomaterials in recent years, and have become …

One dimensional-ZnO nanostructures: synthesis, properties and environmental applications

I Udom, MK Ram, EK Stefanakos, AF Hepp… - Materials science in …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract One-dimensional (1D) zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures such as rods, wires, belts
and tubes have attracted much attention due to their unique physical, chemical, optical, and …

Hollow-ZIF-templated formation of a ZnO@ C–N–Co core–shell nanostructure for highly efficient pollutant photodegradation

H Chen, K Shen, J Chen, X Chen, Y Li - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Semiconducting metal oxides have been considered as effective photocatalysts for the
degradation of organic pollutants to decolorize contaminated water. However, the poor …

Nano ZnO@ reduced graphene oxide composite for high performance supercapacitor: Green synthesis in supercritical fluid

Y Haldorai, W Voit, JJ Shim - Electrochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
In this report, zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) decorated reduced graphene oxide (RGO)
composite was fabricated by a one-pot approach using supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO …

Synthesis and characterization of heterogeneous ZnO/CuO hierarchical nanostructures for photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutant

V Kumari, S Yadav, J Jindal, S Sharma… - Advanced Powder …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the current study, ZnO, CuO and ZnO/CuO mixed metal oxide nano-composites with
different molar ratio of Zn/Cu (10: 1, 8: 1, 6: 1, 4: 1, 2: 1) were prepared via low temperature …

A floatable piezo-photocatalytic platform based on semi-embedded ZnO nanowire array for high-performance water decontamination

Y Zhang, X Huang, J Yeom - Nano-Micro Letters, 2019 - Springer
Highlights ZnO nanowires were securely immobilized onto a floatable photocatalytic
platform, which had a uniform diameter (55±5 nm) and length (1.5±0.3 μm). An additional …

Origin of enhanced photocatalytic activity and photoconduction in high aspect ratio ZnO nanorods

A Leelavathi, G Madras, N Ravishankar - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Faceted ZnO nanorods with different aspect ratios were synthesized by a solvothermal
method by tuning the reaction time. Increased reaction leads to the formation of high aspect …