eprintid: 3957
rev_number: 6
eprint_status: archive
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dir: disk0/00/00/39/57
datestamp: 2020-05-29 08:21:35
lastmod: 2020-05-29 08:21:35
status_changed: 2020-05-29 08:21:35
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Nguyen, T. Dung
creators_name: Tran, Minh Duc
creators_name: Hoang, Van Thanh
creators_name: Trinh, Duc Thien
creators_name: Pham, Duc Thang
creators_name: Nguyen, Dinh Lam
creators_id: pdthang@vnu.edu.vn
creators_id: lamnd2005@vnu.edu.vn
title: Experimental and numerical study on photocatalytic activity of the ZnO nanorods/CuO composite film
ispublished: pub
subjects: isi
divisions: fac_physic
abstract: 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 1μ-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.
date: 2020
date_type: published
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64784-w
id_number: 10.1038/s41598-020-64784-w
full_text_status: none
publication: Scientific Reports
volume: 10
number: 1
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2045-2322
citation:   Nguyen, T. Dung and Tran, Minh Duc and Hoang, Van Thanh and Trinh, Duc Thien and Pham, Duc Thang and Nguyen, Dinh Lam  (2020) Experimental and numerical study on photocatalytic activity of the ZnO nanorods/CuO composite film.  Scientific Reports, 10  (1).    ISSN 2045-2322