Controlled fabrication and photocatalytic properties of a three-dimensional ZnO nanowire/reduced graphene oxide/CdS heterostructure on carbon cloth.

@article{Wang2013ControlledFA,
  title={Controlled fabrication and photocatalytic properties of a three-dimensional ZnO nanowire/reduced graphene oxide/CdS heterostructure on carbon cloth.},
  author={Yajun Wang and Fengmei Wang and Jun He},
  journal={Nanoscale},
  year={2013},
  volume={5 22},
  pages={
          11291-7
        }
}
A novel ZnO/reduced graphene oxide (RGO)/CdS heterostructure was successfully synthesized via a facile three-step solution method. RGO serves as an interlayer between ZnO nanowires and CdS quantum dots (QDs), which provides a high speed charge transfer channel, leading to an enhanced charge separation efficiency. Under UV light irradiation, the photocatalytic activity of the ZnO/RGO/CdS heterostructure is 4.0 times and 1.9 times as high as those of pure ZnO and ZnO/RGO, respectively. Under… 
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