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Controllable synthesis of hierarchical ZnO nanodisks for highly photocatalytic activity†

Teng Zhai,a   Shilei Xie,a   Yufeng Zhao,a   Xiaofeng Sun,a   Xihong Lu,ab   Minghao Yu,a   Ming Xu,a   Fangming Xiaoc  and  Yexiang Tong*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory of Environment and Energy Chemistry of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, MOE Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Institute of Optoelectronic and Functional Composite Materials, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P. R. China
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b Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, United States

c Guangzhou Research Institute of Non-ferrous Metals, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Abstract

ZnO nanodisks consisting of nanocrystallines were successfully synthesized via a simple chemical hydrolysis method in the dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)–H2O system. The growth mechanism of the nanodisks were studied by time-dependent experiments, and the morphology of these nanodisks could be readily tuned by simply adjusting the concentration of DMSO. The role of DMSO in the synthetic procedure of ZnO nanostructures has also been studied. Moreover, these prepared ZnO nanostructures exhibit excellent photocatalytic activities in the degradation of methyl orange (MO).

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CE06013A
Article type
Paper
Submitted
06 Aug 2011
Accepted
12 Nov 2011
First published
10 Jan 2012

CrystEngComm, 2012,14, 1850-1855

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Controllable synthesis of hierarchical ZnO nanodisks for highly photocatalytic activity

T. Zhai, S. Xie, Y. Zhao, X. Sun, X. Lu, M. Yu, M. Xu, F. Xiao and Y. Tong, CrystEngComm, 2012, 14, 1850 DOI: 10.1039/C1CE06013A

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