In this hot article Shuyan Gao, Kai Jiang and co-workers create flower-like Ag/CuO micro/nanostructures with superhydrophilicity and sunlight self-cleaning properties. The “flowers” were synthesized through a facile biomimetic hydrothermal method. The team claim that this research could pave the way for designing useful nanoscale building blocks for photocatalytic applications, especially as self-cleaning photovoltaic coatings.
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Biomolecule-assisted in situ route toward 3D superhydrophilic Ag/CuO micro/nanostructures with excellent artificial sunlight self-cleaning performance. Shuyan Gao, Zhengdao Li, Kai Jiang, Haibo Zeng, Liang Li, Xiaosheng Fang, Xiaoxia Jia and Yanli Chen, J. Mater. Chem., 2011, DOI:10.1039/C0JM04533K (Advance Article)
