• 文献标题:   A facile approach of fabricating graphene-encapsulated ZnO microspheres and their synergic effect on photocatalytic performance
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHAI JL, SUN L, YU HW, LI HY, ZHANG XX, YANG HJ, XU JL
  • 作者关键词:   synthesi, grapheneencapsulated, zno microsphere, photocatalytic activity
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
  • ISSN:   1388-0764 EI 1572-896X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chinese Acad Sci
  • 被引频次:   20
  • DOI:   10.1007/s11051-014-2433-z
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

A facile approach of fabricating homogeneous graphene (GE)-encapsulated ZnO microspheres (ZnO microspheres@GE) by bubbling, sonicating, freeze drying, and reduction is developed. The transmission electron microscopy results reveal an intimate interface between GE and ZnO. The as-synthesized ZnO microspheres@GE composites exhibit much higher adsorption capability and excellent photocatalytic activity for methylene blue compared with bare ZnO microspheres, which should be attributed to improved carrier transport efficiency and large surface area arising from the graphene encapsulating. Besides of that, due to the characters of non-functionalized and easy reproducibility, it should be extended to synthesis of GE-encapsulated other semiconductors as well.