EFFECT OF DEPOSITION TIME OF ZNO NANORODS BY HYDROTHERMAL METHOD ON PHOTOCATALYSIS ACTIVITY

Year 2018, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 33 - 39, 30.04.2018

Fouzia Bourfaa

https://doi.org/10.23884/ijhsrp.2018.3.1.04

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Zinc oxide Nanorods are grown by hydrothermal method
on seed layer of ZnO for various deposition times at low temperature. The seed
layers were deposited on soda lime glass by RF Sputtering with 100 nm of
thickness. This study aimed to investigate the influence of deposition
time of ZnO Nanorods on the photodegradation of Methylene Blue. It is well
known that the experiment conditions control the growth of ZnO NRs. The crystalline
structure of ZnO NRs was studied by means of X-ray diffraction and shows that
the ZnO NRs obtained are primally well aligned and perpendicular to the
substrate. Moreover, ZnO nanorods can be grown with a strong orientation along
(101) and exhibit a wurtzite crystal structure in an XRD spectrum and possessed
a high crystal quality. İn addition the strong relative intensity of
the (002) lines reveals a texture effect of the arrays consistent
with c-axis oriented nanorods. The Photocatalysis activity has more
efficiency when the deposition times decrease.     

Keywords

Zinc oxide, Hydrothermal method, Deposition time, Nanorods

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