Type-II CdS nanoparticle–ZnO nanowire heterostructure arrays fabricated by a solution process: enhanced photocatalytic activity
Open Access
- 27 August 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 38,p. 4585-4587
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b810388g
Abstract
We report a two-step, solution-based synthetic method to fabricate CdS nanoparticles-sensitized ZnO nanowire heterostructure arrays which showed enhanced photocatalytic activities in comparison with bare ZnO nanowire arrays.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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