Investigating the Effect of Reflectance Tuning on Photocatalytic Dye Degradation with Biotemplated ZnO Photonic Nanoarchitectures Based on Morpho Butterfly Wings
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Butterflies
2.2. Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)
2.3. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
2.4. X-ray Diffraction Analysis (XRD)
2.5. Reflectance Spectrophotometry
2.6. Photocatalytic Degradation Measurements
2.7. Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy (LC-MS)
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Piszter, G.; Nagy, G.; Kertész, K.; Baji, Z.; Kovács, K.; Bálint, Z.; Horváth, Z.E.; Pap, J.S.; Biró, L.P. Investigating the Effect of Reflectance Tuning on Photocatalytic Dye Degradation with Biotemplated ZnO Photonic Nanoarchitectures Based on Morpho Butterfly Wings. Materials 2023, 16, 3584. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16093584
Piszter G, Nagy G, Kertész K, Baji Z, Kovács K, Bálint Z, Horváth ZE, Pap JS, Biró LP. Investigating the Effect of Reflectance Tuning on Photocatalytic Dye Degradation with Biotemplated ZnO Photonic Nanoarchitectures Based on Morpho Butterfly Wings. Materials. 2023; 16(9):3584. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16093584
Chicago/Turabian StylePiszter, Gábor, Gergely Nagy, Krisztián Kertész, Zsófia Baji, Krisztina Kovács, Zsolt Bálint, Zsolt Endre Horváth, József Sándor Pap, and László Péter Biró. 2023. "Investigating the Effect of Reflectance Tuning on Photocatalytic Dye Degradation with Biotemplated ZnO Photonic Nanoarchitectures Based on Morpho Butterfly Wings" Materials 16, no. 9: 3584. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16093584