Growth of porous ZnO nanosheets by electrodeposition with Zn4SO4(OH)6·4H2O as precursor.pdfVIP

G a Q K a A R R A A K Z E Z P P 1 g t e s s A m p [ s n s p c d b c [ C H 0 hElectrochimica Acta 85 (2012) 438– 443 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Electrochimica Acta jou rn al h om epa ge: www.elsev ier .com/ locate /e lec tac ta rowth of porous ZnO nanosheets by electrodeposition with Zn4SO4(OH)6·4H2O s precursor in Hou, Liqun Zhu, Haining Chen, Huicong Liu, Weiping Li ? ey Laboratory of Aerospace Materials and Performance (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China r t i c l e i n f o rticle history: eceived 13 July 2012 eceived in revised form 18 August 2012 ccepted 23 August 2012 vailable online xxx a b s t r a c t In this paper, petal-like porous ZnO nanosheets were prepared by indirect electrodeposition with Zn4SO4(OH)6·4H2O (ZSH4) as precursor. Petal-like ZSH4 nanosheets were firstly electrodeposited by adding K2SO4 into the electrolyte of Zn(NO3)2 solution and the growth process of ZSH4 nanosheets was also studied. After heat treatment, it is of great interest that the overall morphology of ZSH4 nanosheets was well maintained but ZSH4 nanosheets were completely converted to the porous ZnO nanosheetseywords: nO lectrodeposition n4SO4(OH)6·4H2O hotocatalytic ability orous nanosheets composed of the ZnO nanoparticles with about 50–100 nm in size. As preliminary application, the photo- catalytic ability of porous ZnO nanosheets was investigated. Since porous ZnO nanosheets possess large surface area, it is expected to be widely applied in sensors, photocatalysis and photoelectrochemical cells. ? 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.. Introduction ZnO has attracted great interests due to its wide direct band ap of 3.3 eV and large exciton binding energy of 60 meV at room emperature, which give its potential applications in optics, opto- lectroni