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本论文以水热法在透明导电石墨烯柔性衬底(GPET)上生长氧化锌(ZnO)纳米管阵列, 发现其纳米管形成机理为选择性地沿(001)面生长, ZnO/GPET异质结具有较好的整流特性. 光催化测试表明, ZnO/GPET复合结构可提高光催化性能, 并具有良好的循环性. 此方法可在柔性衬底上稳定生长ZnO纳米管, 并可应用于相关光电器件及光催化领域中.
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Qi Yu is grateful to Professor Yadong Li for his kind hospitality and supervision during her visit to his laboratory. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51502166, 51781220355) and Shaanxi Province Department of Education Fund (15JK1156).
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Qi Yu obtained her PhD from the State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Jilin University. She is an associate professor at the Institute of Graphene at Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Shaanxi University of Technology. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University under the supervision of Prof. Yadong Li. Her research interests focus on fabrication, characterization and properties of nanomaterials, including ZnO/PET-ITO, ZnO/diamond, and graphene composite structures fabricated by magnetron sputtering or hydrothermal technique.
Chen Chen received his BSc degree from the Department of Chemistry, Beijing Institute of Technology in 2006, and PhD degree from the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University in 2011 under the direction of Prof. Yadong Li. After postdoctoral work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Prof. Peidong Yang, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University as an associate professor in 2015. His research interests are focused on nanomaterials and catalysis.
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Yu, Q., Lin, R., Jiang, L. et al. Fabrication and photocatalysis of ZnO nanotubes on transparent conductive graphene-based flexible substrates. Sci. China Mater. 61, 1007–1011 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40843-017-9211-9
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