Photocatalytic Performance of 3D Ni/Graphene/ZnO Composites Fabricated by Hydrothermal Processing.

ZnO nanorods are fabricated by the hydrothermal processing on the 3 dimensional (3D) Ni/Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) grown multilayer graphene and 3D Ni foams, respectively, and their photocatalytic performance are investigated. It is found that the composites with the graphene sandwiched between the 3D Ni and ZnO nanorods with 4 hours hydrothermal growth exhibits superior photocatalytic performance toward methyl orange (MO) under simulated sunlight, whose apparent degradation rate constant is about 1.3 times larger compared to that without graphene incorporated.