Transparent ZnO coated polydymethane oxygen alkyl material.

Scientists have described the production and photo catalytic properties of a material based on polymethyl sioxane (PDMS), a carrier substrate coated with zinc oxide (ZnO) particles.
ZnO particles are made by hydrothermal method and are intentionally defective in structure. According to scientists, this particular defect structure helps to greatly improve the photo catalytic properties of ZnO materials

. The resulting photocatalysts exhibit high activity in visible light (410 nm) during phenol degradation in aqueous solutions, wherease ZnO is usually inactive below the UV range.
strong enough bonding to run steadily
In addition, the scientists compared the photo catalytic activity of ZnO/PDMS composites with the photodoctic activity of the same ZnO powder suspension in similar settings. They found that the amount of ZnO in the complex was three orders of magnitude less than the powder suspension, resulting in the same activity. The ZnO/PDMS interface is strong enough to ensure stable operation during material production.
the resulting photo catalytic material remains transparent to PDMS due to the small amount of ZnO attached (approximately 0.1 mass). The transparency of ZnO/PDMS photo catalytic materials makes performance upgrades easy by constructing multi-layer or manifold fluid handling equipment.
this work can be found in Volume 17 (2020) of the Journal of Coating Technology and Research.
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