In this study, photocatalytic degradation of paracetamol (acetaminophen), an analgesic and antipyretic drug, was investigated in using semiconductors under UV-B sunlight irradiation. Semiconductor materials, Bi2O3, ZnO, TiO2, ZrO2, were prepared simple sol-gel, coprecipitation, microwave synthesis methods. These photocatalyts characterized by various spectroscopic other techniques. As a result ...

In this study, one-dimensional ZnO nanorod structures with different ratios of nickel doping were produced using the hydrothermal method. The presence in caused variations fundamental characteristics nanorods that grew on RF sputtered seed layer, such as crystallinity quality, morphology, diameter nanorods, band gap energy, resistance sample, and CO2 gas sensing. Produced samples found to form ...

In an organic-based solar cell, the short exciton diffusion length of organic materials requires effective donor-acceptor heterojunction at the nanoscale. In this work, hybrid inorganic/polymer solar cells based on ZnO nanostructures and poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) are constructed to study the effects of ZnO morphologies and wettability of the surface on the P3HT infiltration ability and char...

In this study, we report the effects of thermal annealing in nitrogen ambient on the optical and electrical properties of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorod (NR) arrays for the application in light emission diodes (LED). The single-crystalline ZnO NR array was synthesized on p+-Si (111) substrate without seed layer using simple, low-cost, and low-temperature hydrothermal method. The substrate surface was...

Zinc oxide nanorod arrays (ZnO NRs) were grown on the ZnO seed layers via an aqueous solution using hydrothermal method and their photovoltaic properties were investigated. It was found that the growth period of 20 minutes is the optimum condition for ZnO nanorods growth, the cell containing these nanorods was considered as a reference cell. In order to further increase the cell performance, Zn...

A novel ZnO-FTO heterostructure nanotube array was produced by combining a chemical solution process with oxygen-plasma etching. In this approach, presynthesized ZnO nanorod arrays act as templates, and FTO nanoparticles are deposited onto the ZnO nanorods by a simple spray pyrolysis method. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis demonstrated that the oxygen-plasma treatment decreased the O(...