Defect and its dominance in ZnO films: A new insight into the role of defect over photocatalytic activity

Enhanced photocatalytic activity of homoassembled ZnO nanostructures on electrospun polymeric nanofibers: A combination of atomic layer deposition and hydrothermal growth

“…Photocatalysis is one of the widely researched [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] topics because of its importance in water and environmental purification in the background of unavoidable and ever increasing industrialization [12]. Photocatalysts (PCs) are generally nanostructured semiconductors which are employed either directly [1,2,5,10], doped format [7], defect-induced [3,4,[13][14][15] or combined with another material to yield a synergy effect. Such combinations exploit plasmonic effect [6] or properties of other semiconductors [7][8][9]11] depicting relatively higher photocatalytic activity (PCA) than their pristine counterparts.…”

Enhancing visible light-activated NO2 sensing properties of Au NPs decorated ZnO nanorods by localized surface plasmon resonance and oxygen vacancies

“…As shown in figure 3(d), the asymmetric peaks of O 1 s can be deconvoluted into two components located at 530.5±0.3 eV and 532.3±0.5 eV, denoted as O L and O C , respectively. The O L peaks are associated with the lattice oxygen of ZnO [22,24] while the O C peaks are arisen from the chemisorbed oxygen species (such as adsorbed OH, H 2 O or O 2 ) on the surfaces of ZnO nanorods [29]. The calculated percentages from the quantitative analysis of XPS spectra were summarized in table 1.…”

Hydrothermal oxidation synthesis of rod‐like ZnO and the influence of oxygen vacancy on photocatalysis

“…It has been reported that ZnO NPs annealed in an inert gas (N 2 ) or reductive gas can contribute to the formation of oxygen vacancies . As a typical oxide photocatalyst, oxygen vacancies play an important role in charge transfer between ZnO NPs and organic dyes …”