%A Thi Dung Nguyen
%A Tran Chien Dang
%A Duc Thien Trinh
%A Anh Tuan Duong
%A Duc Thang Pham
%A Nang Dinh Nguyen
%A Dinh Lam Nguyen
%J Materials Research Express
%T Fabrication and characteristics of Zn1–xSnxO nanorod/ITO composite photocatalytic films
%X Zn1−xSnxO NRs/ITO composite photocatalytic films were fabricated by the hydrothermal method. A
concentration of Sn dopant in Zn1−xSnxO nanorods(NRs)was varied from 0% to 7%. The structural
and surface morphology characteristics of Zn1−xSnxO NRs/ITO composite photocatalytic films were
investigated by X-Ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), respectively. In
addition, photocatalytic properties of synthesized materials were evaluated by degradation rates of
Rhodamine-B aqueous solutions under UV light irradiation. The SEM results indicated that, with an
increasing concentration of Sn dopant in Zn1−xSnxO NRs/ITO, the effective surface areas were
declined by an exponential decay function and the reduction was negligible as the Sn doping
concentration was higher than 3%. With the similarity in effective surface area, the contribution of Sn
in the enhancement of the photocatalytic activity of Zn0.93Sn0.07O NRs/ITO is clearly observed with
41% improvement in comparison to ZnO NRs/ITO.
%N 045504
%V 7
%D 2020
%I IOP publishing
%L SisLab4209