Enhanced photocatalytic activity of ZnO/CuO nanocomposite for the degradation of textile dye on visible light illumination.

By R. Saravanan, Sekar Karthikeyan, Vinod Kumar Gupta, Ganesan Sekaran, V. Narayanan, A. Stephen. Materials Science and Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications, 2013

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Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Materials Chemistry

1. F. Gracia
2. R. Saravanan
3. A. Stephen
4. V. Srivastava
5. Susmita Das

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2. R. Saravanan
3. A. Stephen
4. V. Srivastava
5. Susmita Das
6. Vinod Kumar Gupta

Citations in the corpus

• Synthesis of CuO/ZnO Nanocomposites and Their Application in Photodegradation of Toxic Textile Dye (2019, background): “The formation of a CuO/ZnO heterojunction also enhances the optical and electronic properties, which are considered to be promising applications in photocatalysis [10].”
• An overview of the synthesis of CuO-ZnO nanocomposite for environmental and other applications (2018, methodology): “[1] and Li and Wang [17] showed a better photocatalytic performance of CuO-ZnO nanocomposites than its individual component (pure CuO or ZnO).”
• Basic Principles, Mechanism, and Challenges of Photocatalysis (2017, background): “Saravanan et al. reported that spherical-shaped ZnO samples show higher efficiency compared with the spindle-and rod-shaped ZnO samples due to its large surface area (Saravanan et al. 2013a).”