Oxygen-defective ZnO porous nanosheets modified by carbon dots to improve their visible-light photocatalytic activity and gain mechanistic insight

Feng Guo(Jiangsu University of Science and Technology), Haoran Sun(Jiangsu University of Science and Technology), Lei Cheng(Jiangsu University of Science and Technology), Weilong Shi(Jiangsu University of Science and Technology)
New Journal of Chemistry
January 1, 2020
10.1039/d0nj02268c
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Abstract

A carbon dots/oxygen-defective ZnO (COZ) porous nanosheet composite photocatalyst was prepared <italic>via</italic> a one-step liquid-phase wet chemistry method for the highly efficient visible-light photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline (TC).

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