Synthesis and characterization of flower-like ZnO structures and their applications in photocatalytic degradation of Rhodamine B dye

Highly active ZnO-based biomimetic fern-like microleaves for photocatalytic water decontamination using sunlight

“…This implies that the change in band-gap is compensated by the higher surface area (and thus easy pollutant and light accessibility) of the Ag-decorated ZnO micro/nanoferns. Moreover, it is worth emphasizing that the knor of ZnO@ZnS core@shell bioinspired micro/nanoferns, listed in Table 2, are similar or even higher than that of the most competitive stateof-the-art ZnO-based photocatalysts (Tables S1-S3) [23,29,34,[67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86]. Therefore, in relation to the photocatalytic activity, the ZnO@ZnS core@shell bioinspired fern-shape microleaves exhibit an outstanding photocatalyzed remediation for the three different studied pollutants with a catalytic performance rivaling with doped ZnO nano-catalysts.…”

Green synthesis of zinc oxide nano-sized spherical particles using Terminalia chebula fruits extract for their photocatalytic applications

“…The underlying mechanism of the photocatalytic degradation of RhB by the ZnO-NPs under irradiation can be explained on the basis of photogeneration of electronhole pairs (excitons) in ZnO-NP. molecules have the strong oxidative potential for partial or complete decomposition of various organic, inorganic and microbial contaminants adsorbed on the photocatalyst surface [37][38][39][40].…”

Surfactant‐Mediated Electrochemical Precipitation of ZnO Nanospheres for Adsorption of Eosin Yellow & Rhodamine B Dyes

“…Figure 2 shows the FT‐IR plot of the ZO and MZO samples. The narrow peak at ~439 cm −1 corresponds to the stretching vibrations of the Zn−O bond, and the broad peak at 3440 cm −1 can be attributed to the O−H stretching vibration of the adsorbed water molecules [49–51] . The sharp band at ~1631 cm −1 is attributed to the bending vibration mode of O−H of adsorbed water on the samples [52] of ZO, which slightly shifted towards a lower wave number in the case of the MZO sample.…”

“…The narrow peak at ~439 cm À 1 corresponds to the stretching vibrations of the ZnÀ O bond, and the broad peak at 3440 cm À 1 can be attributed to the OÀ H stretching vibration of the adsorbed water molecules. [49][50][51] The sharp band at ~1631 cm À 1 is attributed to the bending vibration mode of OÀ H of adsorbed water on the samples [52] of ZO, which slightly shifted towards a lower wave number in the case of the MZO sample. Both the stretching and bending OÀ H vibrations are due to the surface adsorbed water molecules, which arise due to the surface porosity of nanomaterials and nanocomposites.…”