Conductive polypyrrole–polyaniline/TiO2 nanocomposites (PPy–PANI/TiO2) were prepared by in situ oxidative copolymerization of pyrrole and aniline monomers in the presence of TiO2. For comparison studies, polypyrrole/TiO2 (PPy/TiO2) and polyaniline/TiO2 (PANI/TiO2) were also prepared. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, UV-vis diffuse reflectanc...

Functional 1D metal oxides have attracted much attention because of their unique applications in electronic, optoelectronic, and spintronic devices. For semiconducting oxide nanowires (NWs) (e.g., ZnO, In2O3, and SnO2 NWs), field-effect transistors and light-emitting diodes have been demonstrated. Metallic oxide nanoscale materials, such as nanoscale RuO2, can be good candidates as interconnect...

Narrow-band-gap semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are considered as next-generation sensitizers for solar cells because of their extraordinary optical and electrical properties in terms of tuneable band gap, high molar extinction coefficient, and large intrinsic dipole moment, which may facilitate charge separation in solar cells. Moreover, theoretical photovoltaic conversion efficiency of QDs-s...

The characterization of mixed oxides of TiO2/SiO2 and TiO2/Al2O3 prepared by sol-gel methods is described. Application of the TiO2/Al2O3 material for the photocatalytic decomposition of salicylic acid gave improved activity relative to TiO2-only materials. The photocatalytic activity of TiO2/SiO2, TiO2/Al2O3, and TiO2 toward the photocatalytic decomposition of phenol demonstrated the enhancemen...

Nowadays, fabrication of electronic devices using nanostructured materials has been important since it does provide a way of improving devices efficiency. Nanostructured materials have been known to have high surface area per volume and also exhibit unique properties such as visible light transparency and quantum confinement effect. Such characteristics produce excellent reaction area in the de...

Abstract Water contamination due to environmental conditions and poor waste management in certain areas of the world represents a serious problem accessing clean safe drinking water. This is especially critical electricity-poor regions, where advanced water purification methods are absent. Here, we demonstrate that titanium dioxide nanowires (TiO 2 NWs)-based photocatalytic filters assisted onl...

The metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) was used to synthesis silicon nanowires. The effect of etchant concentration, etching and chemical plating time and doping density on silicon nanowires length were investigated. It is held that the increasing of HF and H2O2 concentrations lead to etching rate increment and formation of wire-like structure. The results show that, the appropriate ratio o...

CoNi nanowires were deposited by pulsed electrodeposition technique into porous alumina templates. The effect of off time between pulses (toff) and reductive/oxidative time (treduc/oxid) on the microstructure and magnetic properties of the CoNi nanowires were investigated. Maximum coercivity and squareness were obtained for samples fabricated at treduc/oxid= 0.5 ms and toff =400 ms. The coerciv...

Sn02 nanowires with diameters of 30 — 200 nm have been synthesized by using carbothermalprocess via a thick film of tin dioxide and carbon powder precursor. The nanowires werecharacterized by X-ray power diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM),transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and Selected Area Electron Diffraction (SAED).The gas sensing characteristic of nanowires toward eth...