The future of semiconductors nanoparticles: Synthesis, properties and applications

AD Terna, EE Elemike, JI Mbonu, OE Osafile… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this review, synthesis, properties and applications of semiconductors nanomaterials was
discussed. Semiconductors have become an all-important inorganic materials and their …

A review on ZnO: Fundamental properties and applications

DK Sharma, S Shukla, KK Sharma, V Kumar - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Among the semiconductor metal oxides, some semiconductor structures are identified for
their unique and vast potential applications in optoelectronic, field effect transistors, solar …

Limitations of the Tauc plot method

J Klein, L Kampermann, B Mockenhaupt… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Tauc plot is a method originally developed to derive the optical gap of amorphous
semiconductors such as amorphous germanium or silicon. By measuring the absorption …

VASPKIT: A user-friendly interface facilitating high-throughput computing and analysis using VASP code

V Wang, N Xu, JC Liu, G Tang, WT Geng - Computer Physics …, 2021 - Elsevier
We present the VASPKIT, a command-line program that aims at providing a robust and user-
friendly interface to perform high-throughput analysis of a variety of material properties from …

Synthesis method, antibacterial and photocatalytic activity of ZnO nanoparticles for azo dyes in wastewater treatment: A review

GK Weldegebrieal - Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
These days, with the increasing problem of water contamination by effluents released from
rising expansion of textile, leather, paper and ink industries and problems related to disease …

Photoluminescence of ZnO nanowires: a review

A Galdámez-Martinez, G Santana, F Güell… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
One-dimensional ZnO nanostructures (nanowires/nanorods) are attractive materials for
applications such as gas sensors, biosensors, solar cells, and photocatalysts. This is due to …

A review of microwave synthesis of zinc oxide nanomaterials: Reactants, process parameters and morphologies

J Wojnarowicz, T Chudoba, W Lojkowski - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a multifunctional material due to its exceptional physicochemical
properties and broad usefulness. The special properties resulting from the reduction of the …

Recent advances in ZnO-based nanostructures for the photocatalytic degradation of hazardous, non-biodegradable medicines

KM Mohamed, JJ Benitto, JJ Vijaya, M Bououdina - Crystals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Antibiotics are pervasive contaminants in aqueous systems that pose an environmental
threat to aquatic life and humans. Typically, antibiotics are developed to counteract bacterial …

[HTML][HTML] ZnO as a functional material, a review

MA Borysiewicz - Crystals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a fascinating wide band gap semiconductor material with many
properties that make it widely studied in the material science, physics, chemistry …

Recent developments of zinc oxide based photocatalyst in water treatment technology: a review

KM Lee, CW Lai, KS Ngai, JC Juan - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
Today, a major issue about water pollution is the residual dyes from different sources (eg,
textile industries, paper and pulp industries, dye and dye intermediates industries …