TY  - JOUR
ID  - SisLab3957
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64784-w
IS  - 1
A1  - Nguyen, T. Dung
A1  - Tran, Minh Duc
A1  - Hoang, Van Thanh
A1  - Trinh, Duc Thien
A1  - Pham, Duc Thang
A1  - Nguyen, Dinh Lam
Y1  - 2020///
N2  - The photocatalytic activity of the ZnO NRs/CuO composite film was investigated by using both experimental and numerical methods. The ZnO NRs/CuO composite film exhibits significantly enlarge absorption range to visible-light and suppress the recombination rate of the photogenerated electron-hole pairs, which can be well utilized as a photocatalyst. The ZnO NRs/CuO composite film also presents good stability, and reusability, and durability for photo-decomposition purpose. The optimal ZnO NRs/CuO composite film contains 1?-thick of CuO film and 10 nm-thick of ZnO NRs film. The donor concentration in ZnO NRs film should be lower than 1016?cm?3. The short circuit current density of the optimal composite film is 25.8?mA/cm2 resulting in the calculated pseudo-order rate constant of 1.85?s?1. The enhancement in degradation efficiency of this composite film is attributed to the inner electric field and large effective surface area of ZnO NRs film.
JF  - Scientific Reports
VL  - 10
SN  - 2045-2322
TI  - Experimental and numerical study on photocatalytic activity of the ZnO nanorods/CuO composite film
AV  - none
ER  -