Highly crystalline ZnO nanoparticles with a pure phase and raspberry-like structure were synthesized using three different techniques (glycol-solvothermal, low-temperature solvothermal, coprecipitation methods). Physisorption analysis field emission scanning electron microscopy confirmed the large specific surface area of mesoporous–macroporous due to interstices aggregated agglomerated seconda...

Nanocrystals of Titanium dioxide were prepared via sol-gel and solvothermal method. They were characterized by X-ray diffraction and Scanning Electron Microscopy studies. The anatase and rutile phase reflections of the Titanium dioxide nanocrystals were identified by X-ray diffraction data. The micro strain value of the nanocrystals were analysed by W-H plot method. Very small value of micro st...

A new solvothermal method for the synthesis of thiol-protected silver nanoparticles starting from silver thiolates is reported. The method has been tried with thiols of different chain length, such as octane and octadecane thiols, and the particle size was found to be nearly the same for both molecules. The synthesis was dependent on heating conditions and the best results were obtained when th...

Incorporation of vertically aligned nanorod/nanowire arrays of metal oxide (oxide-NAs) with a polymer can produce efficient hybrid solar cells with an ideal bulk-heterojunction architecture. However, polymer/oxide-NAs solar cells still suffer from a rather low (normally, < 0.4 V) open-circuit voltage (Voc). Here we demonstrate, for the first time, a novel strategy to improve the Voc in polymer/...

This report describes the facile solvothermal synthesis of highly monodispersed nickel microspheres with surfaces uniformly covered by nickel dots. Synthesis parameters including reaction times and reagent concentrations significantly influence the microspheric particle characteristics. The novelty of the synthetic method in this work is twofold: first, the controlled synthesis of Ni metallic m...