journal article·2014-02

Synthesis of porous ZnO nanospheres for gas sensor and photocatalysis

Di Xiang, Fengyu Qu, Xiang Chen, Zhou Yu, Liru Cui, Xu Zhang, Jingjie Jiang, Huiming Lin

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Monodispersed porous ZnO nanospheres with diameters about 400–600 nm were successfully fabricated by a facile and effective cationic surfactant assisted selective etching strategy. The as-synthesized ZnO materials were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope, transmission electron microscope and N2 adsorption–desorption. These samples were used as the gas sensor, showing the high, stable and fast response to acetone, revealing the potential application as gas sensor to detect acetone. In addition, the photocatalytic degradation property of the porous ZnO nanospheres for methyl orange (MO) under UV irradiation was investigated. The degradation efficiency of MO reaches 96 % of the porous ZnO samples after 50 min of UV-light irradiation.
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OpenAlex topics: Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors · ZnO doping and properties · Ga2O3 and related materials

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