• 文献标题:   ZnO nanorods on reduced graphene sheets with excellent field emission, gas sensor and photocatalytic properties
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZOU RJ, HE GJ, XU KB, LIU Q, ZHANG ZY, HU JQ
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
  • ISSN:   2050-7488 EI 2050-7496
  • 通讯作者地址:   Donghua Univ
  • 被引频次:   132
  • DOI:   10.1039/c3ta11490b
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

In the flexible devices' fabrication, highly ordered nanoscale texturing such as semiconductor metal oxide nanorod arrays on the flexible substrates is critical for optimal performance. Herein, a simple and general hydrothermal route has been developed to result in a large-scale growth of ZnO nanorod arrays on double sides of the flexible reduced graphene sheets (rGss) forming sandwichlike heterostructures of ZnO/G/ZnO, and on a single side of the flexible rGss forming two-layered heterostructures of ZnO/G. The diameter and density of the ZnO nanorods grown on the rGss can be easily tuned as required by varying the seed-solution concentration. Due to the outstanding mechanical and electrical properties of the rGss, two-layered ZnO/G heterostructures were demonstrated to possess excellent field emission properties (turn-on field as low as 2.1 V mu m(-1), the emitting current similar to 470 mu A cm(-2) at 3 V mu m(-1)) and gas sensing (three times the ZnO nanorods); the sandwichlike ZnO/G/ZnO heterostructures have much higher photocatalytic activity under UV irradiation than those of ZnO nanorods and ZnO/G heterostructures, suggesting a promising candidate for photocatalytic decontamination. This would open up possibilities for the extensive study of the physical and chemical properties from these most promising nanostructures and extend their practical applications.