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    Six CuO/ZnO nanorod (CuO/ZnONR)-based microfluidic reactors were constructed for different UV irradiation durations, with which an aqueous methylene blue (MB) solution was photodegraded at varied volume flow rate Q. Via numerical and experimental routes, the effects of the Q on the kinetic adsorption rate constant Ka and the initial rate constant KA of the CuO/ZnONR-based microfluidic reactors were discussed. Moreover, a reverse contacting angle (CA) trend of CuO/ZnONRs to the reaction constant K curve of corresponding CuO/ZnONR-based microfluidic reactor suggested that the CA of CuO/ZnONRs was another key influencing factor that affected greatly the photodegradation performance of the microfluidic reactors. The Q of the aqueous MB solution and the UV irradiation duration for the photodeposition of CuO/ZnONRs were optimized to be 125 μL/min and 1.0 h, the K of the CuO/ZnONR-based microfluidic reactors reached 4.84 min-1, and the related ΔKA/K was less than 6%. Similarly, these methods and results can be employed not only to enhance the mass transport and adsorption of specific species within other nanostructured matrix material-coated microchannels but also to enlarge the actual contacting surface areas between these microchannels and the related solution, which further improve the performance of other nanostructured catalyst-based microfluidic reactors, rGO microfluidic voltage generation, and a GOx/AuNW enzymatic glucose microfluidic sensor.

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    Weixuan Jing, Weizhuo Gao, Zehao Li, Mengli Peng, Feng Han, Zhengying Wei, Zhaochu Yang, Zhuangde Jiang. Regulation of the Volume Flow Rate of Aqueous Methyl Blue Solution and the Wettability of CuO/ZnO Nanorods to Improve the Photodegradation Performance of Related Microfluidic Reactors. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. 2021 Jul 06;37(26):7890-7906

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    PMID: 34152754

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