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Chem. Commun., 2009, 6783 - 6785, DOI: 10.1039/b912137d

Ultraviolet-light-induced bactericidal mechanism on ZnO single crystals

Yonghao Wang, Feng Huang, Danmei Pan, Bin Li, Dagui Chen, Wenwen Lin, Xueyuan Chen, Renfu Li and Zhang Lin

By comparing the photocatalytic bactericidal effect on different crystal faces of bulk ZnO crystal, we found that an electron degradation mechanism dominates the photocatalytic processes of ZnO material.

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