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One-step preparation of ZnO nanoparticle-decorated reduced graphene oxide composites and their application to photocurrent generation†

Jingqi Tian,ab   Sen Liu,a   Haiyan Li,a   Lei Wang,a   Yingwei Zhang,a   Yonglan Luo,a   Abdullah M. Asiri,cd   Abdulrahman O. Al-Youbicd  and  Xuping Sun*acd  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Lab of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, China

b Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

c Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi, Arabia

d Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi, Arabia
E-mail: sunxp@ciac.jl.cn.
Fax: (+86)-431-85262065

Abstract

In this communication, we develop a facile, one-step strategy towards the rapid synthesis of ZnO nanoparticle-decorated reduced graphene oxide (rGO–ZnO) composites by directly immersing Zn plate in a GO solution containing ammonia with the aid of ultrasonication at room temperature. The rGO–ZnO composites obtained have applications in photocurrent generation in the visible spectral region of white light using zinc porphyrin (ZnP) as a photosensitizer.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2RA01114J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
17 Nov 2011
Accepted
07 Dec 2011
First published
05 Jan 2012

RSC Adv., 2012,2, 1318-1321

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One-step preparation of ZnO nanoparticle-decorated reduced graphene oxide composites and their application to photocurrent generation

J. Tian, S. Liu, H. Li, L. Wang, Y. Zhang, Y. Luo, A. M. Asiri, A. O. Al-Youbi and X. Sun, RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1318 DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01114J

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