• 文献标题:   Graphene Nanomesh by ZnO Nanorod Photocatalysts
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   AKHAVAN O
  • 作者关键词:   carbon nanostructure, graphene, zno nanorod, photocatalysi, semiconductor
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Sharif Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   539
  • DOI:   10.1021/nn1007429
  • 出版年:   2010

▎ 摘  要

Local photodegradation of graphene oxide sheets at the tip of ZnO nanorods was used to achieve semiconducting graphene nanomeshes. The chemically exfoliated graphene oxide sheets, with a thickness of similar to 0.9 nm, were,deposited on quartz substrates. Vertically aligned ZnO nanorod arrays with diameters of 140 nm and lengths of <1 mu m were grown on a glass substrate by using a hydrothermal method. The graphene oxide sheets were physically attached to the tip of the ZnO nanorods by assembling the sheets on the nanorods. UV-assisted photodegradation of the graphene oxide sheets (with dimension of similar to 5 x 5 mu m) at a contact place with the ZnO nanorods resulted in graphene nanomeshes with a pore size of similar to 200 nm. The graphene nanomeshes prepared by using the photocatalytic property of the ZnO nanorods contained smaller oxygen-containing carbonaceous bonds and higher defects as compared to the as-prepared graphene oxide sheets. When chemical reduction of the graphene nanomeshes by hydrazine was used, the oxygen bonds of the nanomeshes more decreased while their graphitization increased. Based on X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy at low binding energies, the graphene nanomeshes reduced by hydrazine exhibited as a broad sheet a p-type semiconductor with an similar to 1.2 eV energy gap between the valence band and the Fermi level.