Surfactant-assisted synthesis of ZnO–Au nanostructure with good dispersibility

Phase evolution from rod-like ZnO to plate-like zinc hydroxysulfate during electrochemical deposition

“…for the changes in growth mechanism and dimension of films. Various surfactants have been employed as effective capping agents to prepare ZnO films with tailored dimensions [10,[25][26][27][28][29]. Meanwhile, the chemical nature of inorganic anions in solution allows the dimensions and the deposition rate of ZnO to be controlled as well [30,31].…”

ZnO–Au nanohybrids by rapid microwave-assisted synthesis for CO oxidation

“…Capping agents to control particle size and linkers to anchor the catalyst to the support are inevitably employed and thus rigorous post-treatment to remove the surfactant, followed by annealing at high temperature to improve the interface, is often required. 11 The use of environmentally hazardous reagents is also an issue and, therefore, there is a growing interest in developing sustainable green methods for the synthesis of catalysts with good control over the morphology, microstructure and interface.…”

Characterization of Cotton Ball-like Au/ZnO Photocatalyst Synthesized in a Micro-Reactor

“…Au NPs embedded in ZnO (Au/ZnO), which is regarded as a representative photocatalytic material due to its efficient absorption of light in the visible region, was used as a model system in this work to demonstrate the viability of micro-reactor synthesis for technological applications. There are many works that have reported core-shell [ 33 , 34 , 35 ] or hierarchical [ 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 ] Au/ZnO structures; none of these attempted a continuous process for scalable synthesis.…”