TY - JOUR
T1 - ZnO-nanoparticle-assembled cloth for flexible photodetectors and recyclable photocatalysts
AU - Liu, Bin
AU - Wang, Zhuoran
AU - Dong, Yuan
AU - Zhu, Yuguang
AU - Gong, Yue
AU - Ran, Sihan
AU - Liu, Zhe
AU - Xu, Jing
AU - Xie, Zhong
AU - Chen, Di
AU - Shen, Guozhen
PY - 2012/5/14
Y1 - 2012/5/14
N2 - We reported the fabrication of a highly flexible, sensitive, and excellent reproducible photo-detector based on flexible nanoparticle-assembled ZnO cloth, which was synthesized via a carbon cloth templated hydrothermal method. The conductance of the device increased more than 600 times after UV irradiation. The response time and decay time were found to be around 3.2 s and 2.8 s, respectively, indicating fast photoresponse characteristics for the ZnO cloth photodetector. Besides, the free-standing ZnO cloth can be easily thrown into the wastewater solution and used as a high performance recyclable photocatalyst under light irradiation, which can photodegrade organic dyes such as methylene blue (MB) within a short time of 40 min. The ZnO cloth can be used repeatedly without any weight loss. Our work here opens up opportunities for the fabrication of many other flexible, lightweight, foldable, portable and high performance functional devices.
AB - We reported the fabrication of a highly flexible, sensitive, and excellent reproducible photo-detector based on flexible nanoparticle-assembled ZnO cloth, which was synthesized via a carbon cloth templated hydrothermal method. The conductance of the device increased more than 600 times after UV irradiation. The response time and decay time were found to be around 3.2 s and 2.8 s, respectively, indicating fast photoresponse characteristics for the ZnO cloth photodetector. Besides, the free-standing ZnO cloth can be easily thrown into the wastewater solution and used as a high performance recyclable photocatalyst under light irradiation, which can photodegrade organic dyes such as methylene blue (MB) within a short time of 40 min. The ZnO cloth can be used repeatedly without any weight loss. Our work here opens up opportunities for the fabrication of many other flexible, lightweight, foldable, portable and high performance functional devices.
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U2 - 10.1039/c2jm16781f
DO - 10.1039/c2jm16781f
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84859862765
SN - 0959-9428
VL - 22
SP - 9379
EP - 9384
JO - Journal of Materials Chemistry
JF - Journal of Materials Chemistry
IS - 18
ER -