Recent advances in synthesis of Cu2FeSnS4 materials for solar cell applications: a review

SA Vanalakar, PS Patil, JH Kim - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2018 - Elsevier
The earth-abundant Cu based multinary chalcogenides have great interest in the field of
environmentally benign thin film solar cells. Recently, Cu 2 FeSnS 4 (CFTS), one of the …

Fabrication of nanostructured ZnO thin films based NO2 gas sensor via SILAR technique

VL Patil, SA Vanalakar, PS Patil, JH Kim - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2017 - Elsevier
Zinc oxide (ZnO) thin films have been widely used as an effective gas sensor element. In the
present study, nanostructured thin films of ZnO were prepared by using the simplistic and …

Hybrid photocatalysts using graphitic carbon nitride/cadmium sulfide/reduced graphene oxide (gC 3 N 4/CdS/RGO) for superior photodegradation of organic …

RC Pawar, V Khare, CS Lee - Dalton Transactions, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) was hybridized with CdS nanoparticles and reduced
graphene oxide (RGO) sheets using a facile chemical method, for the application of catalytic …

Review on earth-abundant and environmentally benign Cu–Sn–X (X= S, Se) nanoparticles by chemical synthesis for sustainable solar energy conversion

B Pejjai, VRM Reddy, S Gedi, C Park - Journal of Industrial and …, 2018 - Elsevier
This article provides a status review on the chemical synthesis, structural transformation,
morphological engineering, and band gap energy tuning of Cu–Sn–S (Se) nanoparticles …

Controlled growth of ZnO nanorod arrays via wet chemical route for NO2 gas sensor applications

SA Vanalakar, VL Patil, NS Harale… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2015 - Elsevier
Metal oxide gas sensors are promising devices that are widely used to detect various gases
at moderate temperatures. In this study, nitrogen di-oxide (NO 2) sensors were fabricated …

Single-step sensitization of reduced graphene oxide sheets and CdS nanoparticles on ZnO nanorods as visible-light photocatalysts

RC Pawar, CS Lee - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2014 - Elsevier
Novel composite photocatalysts composed of reduced graphene oxide (RGO) sheets, CdS
nanoparticles (CNPs), and ZnO nanorods were developed using a simple low-temperature …

Construction of Cu doped ZnO nanorods by chemical method for Low temperature detection of NO2 gas

VL Patil, SA Vanalakar, NL Tarwal, AP Patil… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this report, we have prepared Cu-doped ZnO nanorods by a simplistic wet chemical
method with subsequent annealing. The phase formation, optical, surface morphological …

Low temperature chemiresistive gas sensing performance towards oxidising gas based on chemically prepared Ga doped ZnO nanorods

VL Patil, SR Bhosale, RR Bhosale, NL Tarwal… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
The highly sensitive and selective NO 2 gas sensor based on Gallium (Ga) doped ZnO
(GZO) nanorods via a simple and low cost reflux method was investigated. The do** …

Nanostructure CdS/ZnO heterojunction configuration for photocatalytic degradation of Methylene blue

S Velanganni, S Pravinraj, P Immanuel… - Physica B: Condensed …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the present manuscript, thin films of Zinc Oxide (ZnO) have been deposited on a FTO
substrate using a simple successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) and …

Ultra-thin coating of gC 3 N 4 on an aligned ZnO nanorod film for rapid charge separation and improved photodegradation performance

TJ Park, RC Pawar, S Kang, CS Lee - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Type II heterogeneous films with one dimensional (1D) zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods coated
with a graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) layer (1D ZnO/gC3N4) were fabricated by a simple …