Authors: P C Nagajyothi Hankwon Lim Jaesool Shim Sher Bahadur Rawal
Publish Date: 2016/02/03
Volume: 27, Issue: 4, Pages: 1159-1170
Abstract
Monodispersed 200 nmsized ZnO spheres SPs with porous structure emanating from 8 nm zinc oxide nanoparticles NPs composing the SPs were synthesized by dissolving zinc acetate dihydrate in diethylene glycol at 160 °C The prepared SPs were employed in fabricating the gold Au loaded ZnO Au/ZnO SP composite materials exhibiting high photocatalytic activity in decomposing salicylic acid under UVlight irradiation It is deduced that its high catalytic activity originates from the charge separation by transferring photoinduced electrons from the conduction band CB of ZnO to Au since the CB level of ZnO −05 V vs NHE is located more negative side than that of Au +05 V vs NHE The evidence for the charge separation was provided by monitoringOH radical with bare ZnO SPs and Au/ZnO SP produced in the solution which readily react with 14terephthalic acid TA inducing 2hydroxy terephthalic acid TAOH that shows unique fluorescence peak at 426 nm
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