Abstract
Herein, CdO/ZnO core/shell nanofibers (NFs) were fabricated by one-pot electrospinning technique form a solution composed of poly(vinyl alcohol), zinc acetate dihydrate, and cadmium acetate dihydrate. CdO/ZnO core/shell NFs exhibits an excellent photo-degradation of methylene blue (MB) under sunlight irradiation compared to pristine ZnO NFs. As 98.4% and 42.4% of MB dye was de-colorized during 210 min using CdO/ZnO core/shell NFs and pristine ZnO NFs, respectively. The photo-degradation reaction of MB with CdO/ZnO core/shell NFs followed the pseudo-first-order relation.