Nanomaterial-enabled photothermal-based solar water disinfection processes: Fundamentals, recent advances, and mechanisms

Z Tang, D Ma, Q Chen, Y Wang, M Sun, Q Lian… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
The pathogenic microorganisms in water pose a great threat to human health. Photothermal
and photothermocatalytic disinfection using nanomaterials (NPs) has offered a promising …

Refractory materials and plasmonics based perfect absorbers

Y Yao, J Zhou, Z Liu, X Liu, G Fu, G Liu - Nanotechnology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In the past decades, metamaterial light absorbers have attracted tremendous attention due
to their impressive absorption efficiency and significant potential for multiple kinds of …

Cold sintering process of ZnO ceramics: effect of the nanoparticle/microparticle ratio

A Serrano, O Caballero-Calero, MÁ García… - Journal of the european …, 2020 - Elsevier
We show the efficiency in the preparation of> 95% dense ZnO ceramics by cold sintering
process through the incorporation of ZnO nanoparticles in the 1− 10 wt% range at …

Investigations on LSPR effect of Cu/Al nanostructures on ZnO nanorods towards photodetector applications

N Patra, M Manikandan, V Singh, IA Palani - Journal of Luminescence, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we have investigated the room temperature photoluminescence spectra of
Cu/Al nanoparticles coated ZnO nanorods for optoelectronic applications. Pulsed laser …

Plasmon-coupled sub-bandgap photoluminescence enhancement in ultra-wide bandgap CuO through hot-hole transfer

S Arige, V Mishra, M Miryala, MSR Rao, T Dixit - Optical Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Ultra-wide bandgap oxide semiconductors are garnering widespread interest for numerous
applications, including high-power electronics, deep-UV opto-electronics, quantum devices …

Au-spotted zinc oxide nano-hexagonrods structure for plasmon-photoluminescence sensor

AK Gupta, CH Hsu, CH Chen, A Purwidyantri… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study presents the defectless zinc oxide nano-hexagonrods (ZnO-NH) structure
decorated by gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and its enhancement due to the tunable …

ZnO: Au nanocomposites with high photocatalytic activity prepared by liquid-phase pulsed laser ablation

C Yao, W Chen, L Li, K Jiang, Z Hu, J Lin, N Xu… - Optics & Laser …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a simple and feasible method for liquid-phase fabrication of Au-
decorated ZnO (ZnO: Au) nanocomposites by two-step liquid-phase pulsed laser ablation …

[HTML][HTML] Review on the properties of boron-doped diamond and one-dimensional-metal-oxide based PN heterojunction

Y Yao, D Sang, S Duan, Q Wang, C Liu - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
This review is mainly focused on the optoelectronic properties of diamond-based one-
dimensional-metal-oxide heterojunction. First, we briefly introduce the research progress on …

Au decorated ZnO nanostructures for enhanced visible emission and memory applications

J Aziz, N Nasir, E Elahi, A Ali, S Mehmood… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Metal/semiconductor nanocomposites present the most versatile way to tune the optical and
electrical properties of semiconductors at the nanometer scale. In the present study, Au/ZnO …

ZnS covering of ZnO nanorods for enhancing UV emission from ZnO

L Li, C Yao, L Wu, K Jiang, Z Hu, N Xu… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Enhancing the ultraviolet (UV) emission from zinc oxide (ZnO) is of special significance for
fabricating ZnO-based short-wavelength light-emitting devices. Herein, we report the …