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ArticleScientific reports2022

Fabrication of polyhedral Cu-Zn oxide nanoparticles by dealloying and anodic oxidation of German silver alloy for photoelectrochemical water splitting.

Nour Bahnasawy, Abdussalam M Elbanna, Mohamed Ramadan, Nageh K Allam

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  1. Synergistic antimicrobial effect of novel heterophase Cu/CuZn/ZnO nanoparticles.Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2026
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Nour BahnasawyEnergy Materials Laboratory, School of Sciences and Engineering, The American University in Cairo, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt.
Abdussalam M ElbannaEnergy Materials Laboratory, School of Sciences and Engineering, The American University in Cairo, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt.
Mohamed RamadanEnergy Materials Laboratory, School of Sciences and Engineering, The American University in Cairo, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt.
Nageh K AllamEnergy Materials Laboratory, School of Sciences and Engineering, The American University in Cairo, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt. nageh.allam@aucegypt.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9458-3507

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Abstract

A significant effort has been dedicated to the synthesis of Cu-Zn oxide nanoparticles as a robust photocathode material for photoelectrochemical water splitting. Cu-Zn oxide nanoparticles were formed by controlled anodization of German silver (Cu-Zn-Ni) alloy in an aqueous electrolyte. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) demonstrates the dependence of the obtained nanostructures on the anodization time. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns showed the formation of copper oxide (CuO) and zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles with good stability. This was also confirmed by the compositional X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis. The obtained polyhedral nanoparticles showed high optical activity with adequate bandgap energy. These optimized nanoparticles achieved boosted photocurrent of - 0.55 mA/cm

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