HF-based surface modification for enhanced photobiological and photochemical performance of ZnO and ZnO/CdS hierarchical structures
- Title
- HF-based surface modification for enhanced photobiological and photochemical performance of ZnO and ZnO/CdS hierarchical structures
- Author
- 박태주
- Keywords
- ZnO; CdS; HF; Hierarchical; Photocatalysis; E. coli
- Issue Date
- 2020-09
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
- Citation
- MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS, v. 252, Article no. 123190, 9pp
- Abstract
- In this work, we modified the conventional wet chemical route used for synthesis of ZnO hierarchical structure (HS), and successfully obtained superior optical, photochemical and antimicrobial characteristics for ZnO-HS as a consequence of incorporation of hydrofluoric acid (HF). ZnO-HS is unique owing to its morphology with 2D interconnected nanosheets. Strategic use of HF led to appreciable reduction in sheet thickness (up to ~15 nm) of ZnO-HS while physicochemical attachment of Fluorine (F) was also realized. Antimicrobial activity of ZnO-HS against Escherichia coli was measured via pour plate method, and found to be significantly increased as a consequence of HF-based modification of ZnO-HS. In addition, resultant ZnO-HS exhibited higher deposition of CdS quantum-dots via pseudo-successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (p-SILAR), affirming higher photocatalytic performance of ZnO/CdS hierarchical composite (HC). It was established that congo red (CR) dye was degraded ~15% more, when ZnO/CdS HC incorporating HF-based surface modification was used as a photocatalyst. Characteristic improvements in ZnO-HS were affirmed using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, FTIR spectroscopy and SEM.
- URI
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254058420305617https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/164627
- ISSN
- 0254-0584
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2020.123190
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- COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES[E](공학대학) > MATERIALS SCIENCE AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING(재료화학공학과) > Articles
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