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Synthesis of visible light-responsive Cu2O/ZnO nanocomposite via a facile one-pot route

MAOLIN ZHANG1, CHEN FENG1, WENXING ZHANG2, XIAOWEN LUAN1, JIAN JIANG1, LONGFENG LI1,*

Affiliation

  1. School of Chemistry and Materials Science , Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei 235000, PR China
  2. School for the Gifted Young, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China

Abstract

A facile one pot route for synthesizing the visible light driven Cu2O/ZnO nanocomposites has been developed in our work. The as synthesiz ed samples are characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD). The results show that their phase composition, crystallinity and the crystal size are affected by the reaction temperature, the reaction time and the initial Cu2+ concentration. The UV–Vis absorption spectroscopy measurement shows that the optical activity of the as synthesized Cu2O/ZnO nanocomposite is changed compared with that of pure ZnO, exhibiting enhanced absorption in the visible light range, which would be hopeful for more practical applications in future photocatalysis..

Keywords

Nanocomposites, Cu2O/ZnO, Visible light-responsive, One-pot route.

Citation

MAOLIN ZHANG, CHEN FENG, WENXING ZHANG, XIAOWEN LUAN, JIAN JIANG, LONGFENG LI, Synthesis of visible light-responsive Cu2O/ZnO nanocomposite via a facile one-pot route, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 8, 9-10, September-October 2014, pp.933-936 (2014).

Submitted at: Sept. 2, 2013

Accepted at: Sept. 11, 2014