PMID- 35121512
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220308
LR  - 20220308
IS  - 1095-7103 (Electronic)
IS  - 0021-9797 (Linking)
VI  - 614
DP  - 2022 May 15
TI  - Rational design of ZnO-zeolite imidazole hybrid nanoparticles with reduced charge 
      recombination for enhanced photocatalysis.
PG  - 538-546
LID - S0021-9797(22)00100-X [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.01.086 [doi]
AB  - Semiconducting zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) hold great potential as 
      photocatalysts in wastewater treatment because of their favorable bandgap and 
      cost-effectiveness. Unfortunately, ZnO NPs usually show rapid charge 
      recombination that limits their photocatalytic efficacy significantly. Herein, we 
      report a facile way of modifying ZnO NPs with zeolite imidazole framework-8 
      (ZIF8). A synergy between the two components may tackle the drawback of fast 
      charge recombination for pristine ZnO NPs. Improved performance of photocatalytic 
      degradation of methylene blue (MB) is confirmed by comparing with pristine ZnO 
      and ZIF8 as the catalysts. The ZIF8 in the composite serves as a trap for 
      photogenerated electrons, thus reducing the rate of charge recombination to 
      enhance the photocatalysis rate. In addition, the hybridization process 
      suppresses the aggregation of ZnO NPs, providing a large surface area and a 
      greater number of active sites. Moreover, a small shift in the absorption band of 
      ZnO@ZIF8 (10) NPs towards higher wavelength, also witnessed a little contribution 
      towards enhanced photocatalytic properties. Mechanistic studies of the 
      photocatalytic process of MB using ZnO@ZIF8 NPs catalyst reveal that hydroxyl 
      radicals are the major reactive oxygen species. The facile hybridization of ZnO 
      with ZIF8 provides a strategy for developing new photocatalysts with wide 
      application potential.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FAU - Fatima, Hira
AU  - Fatima H
AD  - Western Australia School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering 
      (WASM-MECE), Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6102, Australia.
FAU - Azhar, Muhammad Rizwan
AU  - Azhar MR
AD  - School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup, 
      Western Australia 6027, Australia.
FAU - Zhong, Yijun
AU  - Zhong Y
AD  - Western Australia School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering 
      (WASM-MECE), Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6102, Australia. 
      Electronic address: yijun.zhong@curtin.edu.au.
FAU - Arafat, Yasir
AU  - Arafat Y
AD  - Western Australia School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering 
      (WASM-MECE), Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6102, Australia.
FAU - Khiadani, Mehdi
AU  - Khiadani M
AD  - School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup, 
      Western Australia 6027, Australia.
FAU - Shao, Zongping
AU  - Shao Z
AD  - Western Australia School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering 
      (WASM-MECE), Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6102, Australia; State 
      Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical 
      Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China. Electronic address: 
      zongping.shao@curtin.edu.au.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220117
PL  - United States
TA  - J Colloid Interface Sci
JT  - Journal of colloid and interface science
JID - 0043125
RN  - 0 (Imidazoles)
RN  - 1318-02-1 (Zeolites)
RN  - SOI2LOH54Z (Zinc Oxide)
SB  - IM
MH  - Imidazoles
MH  - *Nanoparticles
MH  - Recombination, Genetic
MH  - *Zeolites
MH  - *Zinc Oxide/chemistry
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Charge recombination
OT  - Photocatalysis
OT  - Photocatalyst
OT  - Semiconductor-zeolite imidazole nanoparticle
OT  - Wastewater treatment
COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2022/02/06 06:00
MHDA- 2022/03/09 06:00
CRDT- 2022/02/05 05:46
PHST- 2021/11/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/01/12 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/01/13 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/02/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/03/09 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/02/05 05:46 [entrez]
AID - S0021-9797(22)00100-X [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.01.086 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Colloid Interface Sci. 2022 May 15;614:538-546. doi: 
      10.1016/j.jcis.2022.01.086. Epub 2022 Jan 17.