p-Cu2O/n-ZnO heterojunction applied to visible light Orange II degradation

Bi-component Cu2O–CuCl composites with tunable oxygen vacancies and enhanced photocatalytic properties

“…As an important family of metal oxides, cupric oxide (Cu 2 O), is generally accepted as a promising photocatalyst due to its low cost, abundant and environment friendly characteristics [4][5][6]. Study indicates that the performance of these materials is closely related to their microstructures [7][8][9].…”

Synthesis and characterization of ZnO/Cu2O core–shell nanowires grown by two-step electrodeposition method

“…Moreover, the conduction band (CB) of p-Cu 2 O is more negative than that of n-ZnO which favors the charge separation and transfer. More recently several works have focused on the synthesis and characterization of type-II core/shell arrays such as ZnO/ZnTe [16,17], ZnO/ZnSe [18][19][20] and ZnO/Cu 2 O [21][22][23]. In our case we are interested in Cu 2 O/ZnO core/shell nanostructures.…”

Synthesis of Cu2O/T-ZnOW nanocompound and characterization of its photocatalytic activity and stability property under UV irradiation

“…Only a few researches have discussed the photocatalytic property of Cu 2 O/ZnO compound for foul water. Helaili et al [24] found Cu 2 O/ZnO compound to be very effective in degrading OrangeII, and then attributed the increased efficiency to the photo charges separation at the p-n heterojunction. Xu et al [25] prepared ZnO/Cu 2 O compound, and found that the compounded catalyst can degrade MO vigorously under irradiations.…”